I like having my back pressed against a wall and being made to work harder so I don't embarrass myself.

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.

I hope you will excuse my being late. The person in this organization who gave me directions here has obviously heard me speak before.

Hope is not a resting place but a starting point - a cactus, not a cushion.

The paparazzi have got worse for everyone over the years. It has just become such a big deal. No-one in this business really has much privacy.

If you get offended by my music, don't listen to it.

If someone gave the Russians a football, they'd win the Super Bowl in two years.

I'm not someone who ever enjoys violence against women or children.

That which gives us true freedom and true happiness is the compassionate love of Christ.

Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.

The world is the closed door. It is a barrier. And at the same time it is the way through.