I suppose when some people see you on TV, they expect you to be this flamboyant, champagne-drinking stud. But I'm not like that.

If I cry on telly, I'm genuinely crying. If it's a gritty scene it can come naturally.

If I thought someone was just chatting me up because of being on TV, it'd kill me.

I drink when I want and how much I want. Sometimes I get in really bad states, but it doesn't cause me or anyone else any problems.

It bewilders me when people speak to you rudely or are mean, because I'd never be that way.

People need new things to excite them, new inventions, new ideas, new art, new drugs, if there are no new things, then they resort to war

Any writer who puts his words and thoughts out into the public is going to be criticized.

Write what you know. Write what you can't forget. Write to give yourself courage and others hope.

Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

We come in many different shapes and sizes, and we need to support each other and our differences. Our beauty is in our differences.

I think that if you just write your characters you end up with something that people can access.

There is no religion without mysteries. God Himself is the great secret of Nature.

A sarcastic person has a superiority complex that can be cured only by the honesty of humility.

The nonconformist and the rebel say all manner of unanswerable things against the existing republic, but discover to our sense no plan of house or state of their own.

That is the power of the Eucharist. At the communion table you have rich and poor together in the early church and they were being challenged.