No matter what is happening in the world, I continue to believe in humanity. The power of positive thinking is always enough.

I was never, ever the ingenue. The young, innocent lead was just not me.

If we were to remove the Bible from public schools we would be wasting so much time punishing crimes and taking so little pains to prevent them.

You might, from your appearance, be the wife of Lucifer,” said Miss Pross, in her breathing. “Nevertheless, you shall not get the better of me. I am an Englishwoman.

If experience was so important, we'd never have had anyone walk on the moon.

Every good work of software starts by scratching a developers personal itch.

The past is such a subtle thing. [But] in the end, nothing else exists, everything is made of the past, even the future.

Just because I never went to university doesn't mean you can't read, although I do feel a bit uneducated from time to time.

One of the most memorable things I hear is when someone tells me that my books got a reluctant reader to read.

For me, as an actor, one of the biggest fears on a TV show is getting stuck in something where you end up feeling like you're doing the same thing, every single year.

I wanted to distance myself from those pasty faced corpses in suits I saw in airline magazine ads. If I was going to become a businessman, I was going to do it on my own terms.