Oscar Wilde quite rightly said, 'All art is useless'. And that may sound as if that means it's something not worth supporting. But if you actually think about it, the things that matter in life are useless. Love is useless. Wine is useless. Art is the love and wine of life. It is the extra, without which life is not worth living.

Hell, I am young. I am free. My teeth are clean. The sun shines. To hell with everything else

The stranger might laugh and seem to enjoy the writing, but you hug to yourself the thought that they didn't quite understand its force and quality the way you do - just as your friends (thank heavens) don't also fall in love with the person you are going on and on about to them.

I'm fat because I'm greedy, and if my mind is fat it's because I'm curious.

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

Having been an actor and a writer for so long - 20 years or so - I felt that it would be daft to go to one's grave without having directed. It's a natural extension of writing and acting, and so I knew it would happen one day.

I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.