It occurred to me then that the man might not be mad

Ranger locked eyes with me. "Please, " he said.Tank and Hal were goggle-eyed. They weren't used to "please." I wasn't used to it either. But I liked it. Okay, " I said. "Be careful. He's insane.

Nothing so removes a man from his inner, mysterious, real life, nothing makes him so deaf and dumb as the picture of these petty passions and petty crimes which calls itself the world of politics.

The next time you get scared, get sacred!

It is better to make an irrational noise in a bush than in a desert.

The invisible carnage of the unf-ed wives and the children not being read to is just wafting out.

If God called us to a task, He will then qualify us for the job.

I have very short hair. It's the only cute haircut I think I've ever had.

I'm really happy. Really! I think people honestly just want to see me as a mum and married and barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen. And I just want to say, 'Everybody, relax! It's going to happen.'

Oasis can't be summed up in one word. I could do a sentence: Boys from council estate made it very, very big.

When I first read the script a few years ago I thought it was one of the best written scripts I had ever read.