If you are lucky enough to be successful, you get drawn further in and you stop paying attention to the stuff that matters.

For some time now, I have been encouraging people to ask themselves why things look the way they do.

Occasionally, I just need to escape from my work or be reminded of the comparative bliss of my own life, so I pick up a novel.

Making books is hard work. Some books are, of course, more demanding than others.

I went back to the notion of story, which is always a good thing to have if you're trying to get people to pay attention to a book and pick up information along the way.

I'm a big fan of the digestive system.

Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.

You can not fail in any laudable object, unless you allow your mind to be improperly directed.

If there is a better singer in England than Craig David, then I am Margaret Thatcher.

I eat fish and love bacon. Plus, I don't mind if soups are made with chicken or beef stock, I just don't like eating big pieces of meat.

You can still see the shadow from when the Zeppelin floated over America; it took like Islam in the desert . . .

If I wasn't acting, I have no clue what I'd be doing 'cause I have no other talent.

Cancer is messy and scary. You throw everything at it, but don't forget to throw love at it. It turns out that might be the best weapon of all.

The acting world is a humbling experience, I find.

Religion keeps society divided. Spirituality unites it.

The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.