I once took on the role of the Batman for a commercial about equal pay for women.

Truth cannot be constructed. To live in ideology is, as Havel so eloquently reminds us, inevitably to live in a lie. Truth can only be revealed. We cannot be creators, only receptors.

Sometimes people who seem good end up being not as good as you might have hoped, you know?

Take the Positive, and run! Run from the negative!

However fast you run, or however skilfully, you can’t run away from your own feet.

It's not about finding Mr Right, or that sort of conventional ending, but I do want my characters to have hope - and that's what I do with all my stories.

All real change requires risk. You must take risks every day of your life. You must get up each morning and ask...: What can I do that is different?

I'm so interested in the fact that we really don't know anybody. We think we know the people close to us, but we don't, we really don't.

The harder you had to work to open a package, the less you ended up caring about what was inside.

Lord Jesus, receive my spirit . . . I see the heavens open and Jesus standing at the right hand of God.

I wasnt born with a golden spoon in my mouth. It was a really tough life.