He really did not care whether he survived or not, so long as it rendered him unconscious and absolved him of responsibility.

I was born too late for steam trains and a lazy eye meant I'd never be an astronaut.

It wasn't about believing this or that, it wasn't even about good and evil and right and wrong, it was about finding the strength to bear the discomfort that came with being in the world.

And it occurred to him that there were two parts to being a better person. One part was thinking about other people. The other part was not giving a toss what other people thought.

I like dogs. You always know what a dog is thinking. It has four moods. Happy, sad, cross and concentrating. Also, dogs are faithful and they do not tell lies because they cannot talk.

On the fifth day, which was a Sunday, it rained very hard. I like it when it rains hard. It sounds like white noise everywhere, which is like silence but not empty.

Everyone has learning difficulties, because learning to speak French or understanding relativity is difficult.

No one wants to know how clever you are. They don't want an insight into your mind, thrilling as it might be. They want an insight into their own.

You love someone, you've got to let something go.

For me, disability is a way of getting some extremity, some kind of very difficult situation, that throws an interesting light on people.

From a good book, I want to be taken to the very edge. I want a glimpse into that outer darkness.

If it's glorious to fail in great attempts, then #gloriousfail should definitely be a thing.

To love life is to love all of it.

You learn more about life from watching 'Big Brother' than from reading a book.

Laughter, n. An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable.

Being a good artist is the toughest job you could pick, and you have to be a little nuts to take it on.

Remember the man who truly repents is never satisfied with his own repentance.

God if the press ever quoted anyone correctly it would be brilliant.

More personal films, you could make them, but your budgets would be cut down.

God sends rain, but He also sends hoods; and when the rain grows heavier, He sends a cave.

The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.