Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.

Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.

God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.

Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.

Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.

I don't need a church to tell me I'm wrong where I already know I'm wrong; I need a Church to tell me I'm wrong where I think I'm right

The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.

A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.

When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.

But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.

For better or worse, honeybees are often much too busy to be bothered with personal reflection.

Science, unlike theology, never leads to insanity.

I've always been interested in science - one of my favourite books is James Watson's 'Molecular Biology of the Gene.'

Moonstruck... was one of the few romantic comedies to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.

The Olympics are great for notoriety right off the bat, but your body of work is what people remember you for.

I see the light at the end of the tunnel, so I'm going hard.

You can relate to somebody's pain and you have compassion, which can lead to intimacy.

The iPad was my first splurge after I got my first paychecks. I paid off the debt, and I now bring the iPad with me to auditions.

The first time I toured the U.K. was in the early '90s with Billy Pilgrim, so I know how much the people there love music.

When England go to Turkey there could be fatalities - or even worse, injuries.