I feel I would love to close down for a number of years in some way and just be in the country making pork pies and chutneys and never have to poke my head out of the parapet.

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.

I'm afraid I don't believe there is such a thing as blasphemy, just outrage from those insecure in their own faith.

There is not any way that you can just choose the nice bits and say that means there is a God and ignore the true fact of what nature is.

To me, reason is as spiritual as anything else, the beauty of reason seems to me indelible and ineffable and numinous... the spirit is after all the same word we use to describe... essence

It was as if he grew his hair long and smoked cigarettes because he liked to, not because he liked being seen to. This was dangerously subversive.

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