I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you might nudge the world a little or make a poem that children will speak for you when you are dead.

A play that works well and is done quite a lot - I've never done the math - but it's probably more remunerative than a movie.

A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar - you pretend it's not there.

The universe is deterministic all right, just like Newton said, I mean it's trying to be, but the only thing going wrong is people fancying people who aren't supposed to be in that part of the plan.

Give us this day our daily mask.

It would have been nice to have had unicorns.

I was so thrilled being a reporter, because it gave you the kind of access to people that you wouldn't ever get to meet.