The email of the species is deadlier than the mail.

I've never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind.

A film star is a kind of public monument, and everyone's staring at them, and they've kind of got railings around them, and they're rather miserable most of the time.

Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least does us all some good.

It's rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to describe them as bipolar. Whether it's Hemingway, Van Gogh... Robert Schumann has been mentioned... Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath... some of them with rather grim ends.

...as absurd and dishonest as claiming that the trouble with computer games is that they stop people watching television.

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