I lived in the cultural equivalent of Tatooine when I was a little boy. I didn't live in London, I didn't live right in the middle of where everything was happening, I lived on the very edge of it.

We are never more creative than when we are at odds with the world and there is nothing so artistically destructive as comfort. Princess Leia taught me that.

Being a geek means you never have to play it cool about how much you like something.

Being a geek is all about being honest about what you enjoy.

I think at its best the American sense of humor is the same as the British sense of humor at its best, which is to be wry and ironic and self deprecating.

I think that the joke and the ghost story both have a similar set up in that you kind of set something up and pay it off with a laugh or a scare.

I do get very angry at things. My wife has to count to ten because if she gets annoyed at me being annoyed, then I get annoyed at her being annoyed at me being annoyed.

I used to lie in bed in my flat and imagine what would happen if there was a zombie attack.

The worst and the best that the internet ever did was give everybody a voice.

The trouble with addiction is that you can park the car but you can never switch off the engine or stop yourself from hearing the revs.

I was always Luke because I had blond hair, and my mate Stu was Han. Han was the cool one. The Jedi were never the cool ones.

Religion is everywhere. There are no human societies without it, whether they acknowledge it as a religion or not.

I try to do the right thing with money. Save a dollar here and there, clip some coupons. Buy ten gold chains instead of 20. Four summer homes instead of eight.

Deadwood did not kill itself!

Compare sending someone a text message and getting a love letter delivered by carrier pigeon. No contest.

I finally learned to live in the present and focus only on what I want rather than what I don't want.

Well, art is art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water.

There is no such thing as an unmusical person.

Caesar's wife must be above suspicion.

Do not act as if you had a thousand years to live.

People don't want to be millionaires - they want to experience what they believe only millions can buy.