I have pushed the boat out as far as I should in terms of taking on too many things. I'm getting older and I just could not take it any more. I am now monitoring myself very closely and I'm just trying not to get into that sort of state again.

Cynical is the name we give those we fear may be laughing at us.

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.

I'm a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.

My father was all brain and little heart.

It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.

I believe that poetry is a primal impulse within us all.