Glory never arrives through the front door. She sneaks in uninvited round the back or through an upstairs window while you are sleeping.

If we empower ourselves with responsibility over our actions, responsibility over our destinies and responsibility for directing and maintaining and creating our own ethical and moral frameworks, which is the most important thing really isn’t it because perhaps the greatest insult to humanism is this idea that mankind needs a god in order to have a moral framework.

Why should I be depressed? I've got enough money. I've got a job. People like me. There is no to be depressed. That's at stupid as saying there is no reason to have asthma or there is no reason to have the measles. You know you've got it. It's there. It's not about reason.

I like to wake up each morning and not know what I think, that I may reinvent myself in some way.

A month's salary, deep regret, the telephone number of some foul rehab clinic and my lance was free.

We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing - an actor, a writer - I am a person who does things - I write, I act - and I never know what I'm going to do next. I think you can be imprisoned if you think of yourself as a noun.

Life, that can shower you with so much splendour, is unremittingly cruel to those who have given up.