Truth has been displaced as a value and replaced by psychological effectiveness.

I can only answer the question ‘What am I to do?’ if I can answer the prior question ‘Of what story or stories do I find myself a part?’

Christians have given atheists less and less in which to disbelieve

It is only by participation in a rational, practice-based community that one becomes rational.

At the foundation of moral thinking lie beliefs in statements the truth of which no further reason can be given.

[M]odern society is indeed often, at least in surface appearance, nothing but a collection of strangers, each pursuing his or her own interests under minimal constraints.

The way to bring out the best in the British people is to attack them.

What this brings out is that modern politics cannot be a matter of genuine moral consensus. And it is not. Modern politics is civil war carried on by other means.

Facts, like telescopes and wigs for gentlemen, were a seventeenth century invention.

Morality which is no particular socity's morality is to be found nowhere.

Of what story or stories do I find myself a part?

The beauty of soul is reflected by eyes

Please, Mr. Engineer let a man ride the linePlease, Mr. Engineer let a man ride the lineI ain't got no ticket please let me ride the blinds

What compels me to write now is the same as all those years ago. It is the love of writing and storytelling, driven by a desire to escape.

Keep the other person's well-being in mind when you feel an attack of soul-purging truth coming on.

I realized then that the generations may change but the strength of our nation remains solid.

We as songwriters are in the same position as a professional fisherman. Our fishing grounds are kind of fished out.

The way we care for our babies is how they experience our love.

Compost makes houseplants very happy.

Thank you to my wonderful actors, the triangle of man-love which is Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush and me.

Quality has always been the overriding factor for us. But you also have to have happy people working for you.