Like everyone else, I've had moments when I've felt that I've been losing my grip.

Perhaps it is good to have a beautiful mind, but an even greater gift is to discover a beautiful heart.

I'd move to Los Angeles if New Zealand and Australia were swallowed up by a tidal wave, if there was a bubonic plague in England and if the continent of Africa disappeared from some Martian attack.

Iceland is fascinating; really an amazing place to visit, and great for a film to go there.

I have respect for beer.

There's nothing like sitting back and talking to your cows.

I love going shopping. I have a black belt in it.

God bless America, God Save the Queen, God defend New Zealand and thank Christ for Australia.

I like villains because there's something so attractive about a committed person - they have a plan, an ideology, no matter how twisted. They're motivated.

We can't repay our good luck with bad grace. It invites darkness.

If you live like it’s the past and you behave like it’s the past, then guys from the future find it very hard to see you.

Love is a kind of insanity.

Sometimes you gotta listen your brain to save your heart.

He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.

I think we need a life-loving Palestine living by a Jewish democratic Israel.

Daisy chains are pretty fragile, and it turns out that families are too.

Till the first friend dies, we think our ecstasy impersonal, but then discover that he was the cup from which we drank it, itself as yet unknown.

To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.

Vodka has a huge history in Russia, in that it's almost like a currency. It's the one thing that keeps the country in the dark ages and having a rollicking good time.

To be a heretic to-day is almost a human obligation.

If you want to keep getting what you're getting, keep doing what you're doing.