I realised that to compare your insides with other people's outsides leads to unhappiness.

I don't mind not being cool; I wear a cardigan.

If you want something Scottish, go get yourself a kilt.

I went to China for a brief working visit, and I thought that Shanghai was interesting, but Beijing totally grabbed me.

Christians, you and your churches don't get to be millionaires while other people have nothing at all. They're your bloody rules! Either stick to them or abandon the faith.

I have learnt that I am incapable of packing the right amount of clothing, probably because I start 10 minutes before I'm supposed to leave, and that I truly hate airports.

I find myself by default an atheist but fairly unhappily so. It would be bloody marvelous if there was a god.

I'm more pompous and self-assured and determined that if - you know - if the truth can be told so as to be understood, it will be believed.

My purist comedy friends accuse me of being a Jack of all trades and master of none.

If Pac-Man had affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive electronic music.

I stumbled on a joke idea and style that worked, the audience went with it and, from that moment on, I was hooked. It's an amazing feeling.

‎Sincerity is the biggest part of selling anything -- including the Christian plan of salvation.

I've never been poor only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is a temporary situation.

Live mindful of how brief your life is.

Dealing with Hollywood and commercial entertainment, you always have to worry that the political message is going to be skewed or obscured.

I was about to write that in the future I would chose my words more carefully but I'm sure I won't.

Being an unpublished novelist has about as much social acceptability as being a shopping bag lady.

To win, you have to risk loss.

That's a hard question, because I started skating when I was three, so I don't really remember life before it, and I don't know what it is like not to work hard at something.

I wonder if anyone thinks of me when they can’t fall asleep at night.

In indolent vacuity of thought.