Any school for free citizens must begin by teaching distrust, not trust. It must teach questioning, not acceptance of stock answers.

Simplicity is the most difficult of all concepts.

It is better to fill your head with useless knowledge than no knowledge at all.

You will know it is love when the need can't be met by yourself or God.

Appearances can be deceiving, but the true colours of your soul remain.

There's nothing childish about me, sweetheart.

What we're fighting against isn't an out-and-out vice. It's an overgrown, perverted virtue.

Fond pride of dress is sure a very curse

We were the only black family in an estate with 1,000 white families. Liverpool being quite racist in the Sixties, it was a bit grim growing up.

Jebediah Woodley is one of those guys that when I'm sitting in my rocking chair one day, thinking back, I'll remember that guy. He was a fun guy to play.

I'm a Catholic, but I used to love going to Vacation Bible School with my fundamentalist friends.

It was tough doing 'Underneath the Lintel' in New Jersey in the wintertime, but rewarding. Those audiences were lively and interactive. On-stage was great, but off-stage was difficult.