The English like eccentrics. They just don't like them living next door.

I've found a more personal, pagan kind of religion to satisfy the spiritual side of things.

Rodents can come across as being quite vacant in the personality stakes

I'm currently in an interesting correspondence with a nun about forgiveness

The bullying was hideous and relentless, and we turned it round by making ourselves celebrities.

I didn't think of myself as a tart, but I wouldn't argue with anyone who did

However light-hearted you try to be about it, the loss of youth, and everything that goes with it, is quite a trauma.

I think Australians like a bit of vulgarity

The good thing about getting older is that, as you become less attractive, so you have less desire to go out and conquer everyone you see

Just because someone's dead doesn't mean it's over. My grandfather died more than 25 years ago, but I still think of him a lot and smell his smell.

The whole business of getting famous was good fun, but it was a long time ago.

As a writer, I am just an actor in a play, telling a story that needs to be told.

Friends are the artists who paint happy lips on your face.

When we want to talk, we can instead listen, and let our attentiveness to another's need to speak, be our silent statement.

Loneliness is not lack of company, loneliness is lack of purpose.

The ability of a television series to make adjustments is something you've got to take advantage of.

We don't have seasons anymore. You know why? We lost the ozone layer. Well, put it on milk cartons - let's find it!

I don't want to die ... I don't want to die poor. Two great motivators in the history of human cultures.

Unfortunately, I am very aware of editing and I look at the monitor too much. Sometimes the monitor can become your worst enemy because you can, consciously or unconsciously, start editing yourself.

All models are wrong; some models are useful.

Sir, Respect Your Dinner: idolize it, enjoy it properly. You will be many hours in the week, many weeks in the year, and many years in your life happier if you do.