When I was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award.

There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.

People who speak in metaphors should shampoo my crotch.

My whole career strategy has been to build a base so that I could take the roles I want to play. I'd hate to think that a shorter part might not be available because I was worried about my billing.

I'm Irish. I think about death all the time.

Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world.

With my sunglasses on, I'm Jack Nicholson. Without them, I'm fat and 60.

The minute that you're not learning I believe you're dead.

Human beings are always going to find interesting ways of making a mess of their lives. It's human nature.

I don't think many people have a very good understanding of leisure and the importance it plays in our lives.

Men dominate because of physicality, and thus they have mercy where women do not.

His name is Marcus: he is four and a half and possesses that deep gravity and seriousness that only small children and mountain gorillas have ever been able to master.

What is research but a blind date with knowledge?

The day that I die will be by far the most beautiful day I ever lived.

To review ones store is to mow twice.

When things are in order, if the cause of the orderliness cannot be deduced from the motion of the elements or from the composition of matter, it is quite possibly a cause possessing a mind.

Evolution isn't just a take-it-or-leave-it story about where we came from. It's an epic at the centre of life itself. It tells us we are part of nature in every respect.

You chose love like a belief, a faith, a place, a box for one's heart to knock against like a spook in the house.

Sometimes, when you are not getting the love you want, giving makes you think you will.

Everyone is a creative agent. ... The tools are your imagination and your imagination is limitless.

It was Queen Elizabeth who made me a foreign correspondent.