If you are at a boys' school, especially, there is a level of bravado that you have to keep up otherwise you'll get picked on.

I think everyone should pursue their dreams. Whether you want to play football, act, sing, become a writer or whatever you have burning inside you as you’re growing up, you should pursue it.

As a citizen, you have a duty to ask what is true and what is false.

When a new project comes along, I want to know that the experience is going to be challenging and exciting. Part of me is going to be drawn to doing something new and also the satisfaction of intellectual curiosity.

I personally feel that people feel very reassured by nature because it makes us feel small and that's a good thing for human beings and for society.

I think a healthy connection with the natural world actually makes us more human.

Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama; fathers and sons, martyred heroes, star-crossed lovers, the deaths of kings - stories that taught us of the danger of hubris and the primacy of humility.