My parents' parents were regular working-class people. I ended up speaking in a certain way, and one gets sidelined into doing certain parts. I think that is really quite narrow-minded.

If I was to meet Lou Reed or Bob Dylan, I would be totally helpless. Writers and musicians make me feel completely starstruck.

I love Scotland, mainly for its landscape. I like walking, and it's a great place to go hiking.

Actors don't listen to each other. You're so obsessed with what you're saying or doing that the other person could be talking in Swahili and you wouldn't know.

I think all parts come with baggage unless it is a brand new play. If one was daunted by that, you would never do anything.

Growing up, I went to many schools, and I had to fit in to many different types of environments with totally different social groups. It helps me out as I move from job to job.

That's the privilege of being a grandparent - they can indulge the children while parents have to be the bad guy. Grandparents can also be subversive and naughty with them.

You have to recognize your inability to love before you can love the way God loves. His version of love is unfamiliar to the natural world

All foreign food is doomed to be consumed in India not so much by Indians as by a voracious Indian sensibility, which demands infinite versions of Indian food, and is unmoved by difference.

As breath stills our mind, our energies are free to unhook from the senses and bend inward.

I haven't lost a war. No one got killed. I just lost a tennis match.

Clinton had absolutely zero honeymoon, none whatsoever.

I do not know of a single TV meteorologist who buys into the man-made global warming hype. I know there must be a few out there, but I can't find them.

Every writing career starts as a personal quest for sainthood, for self-betterment. Sooner or later, and as a rule quite soon, a man discovers that his pen accomplishes a lot more than his soul.

I love Nicki Minaj, Eminem, Katy Perry. They are all about being themselves and I love that.

He that has done nothing has known nothing.

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.