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.

Like vichyssoise, revenge is a dish best served cold.

At least 260 species of animal have been noted exhibiting homosexual behavior but only one species of animal ever, so far as we know, has exhibited homophobic behavior - and that's the human being.

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

Seriousness is no more a guarantee of truth, insight, authenticity or probity, than humour is a guarantee of superficiality and stupidity.

I certainly don't want to be formulaic. I want to be honest and authentic and everything else.

I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.