But for me the sweetest contact with God has no form. I close my eyes, look within, and enter a deep soft silence. The infinity of God's creation embraces me.

You can go other places, all right - you can live on the other side of the world, but you can't ever leave home

I realized that cats make a perfect audience, they don't laugh at you, they never contradict you, there's no need to impress them, and they won't divulge your secrets.

To have some idea what it's like, stand in the outside lane of a motorway, get your mate to drive his car at you at 95 mph and wait until he's 12 yards away, before you decide which way to jump.

Poetry is what we do to break bread with the dead.

There's never one sunrise the same or one sunset the same.

My three best friends get me through everything: I need cute jeans, my kids are driving me crazy, I'm throwing a party, whatever. They keep me dialed in.

Whenever I work on something, I try and throw everything I have at it. Then if the director finds it useful they use it, and if not, they ignore it!

He has been a doctor a year now and has had two patients - no, three, I think - yes, it was three; I attended their funerals.

Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with.

Maybe everyone is just trying to protect me by lying to me. I don't care. I'm sick of people lying to me for my own good.