There's a perception that British pies suffer from mediocrity, and historically they have. We're trying to re-educate people about what pie is.

I prefer the pen. There is something elemental about the glide and flow of nib and ink on paper.

No one can say I didn't pay my dues in life.

Trust the story ... the storyteller may dissemble and deceive, the story can't: the story can only ever be itself.

There is something hugely civilised about allowing long pauses in a conversation. Very few people can stand that kind of silence.

On the clarity of your ideas depends the scope of your success in any endeavor.

The dead hand has too long hampered the freedom of the living.

It might be tough, but my dad used to say, tough times don't last — tough people do.

What you expect, it will happen.

Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

There's nothing sexy about skin and bone. You gotta have some junk in the trunk.

Galen Clark was the best mountaineer I ever met, and one of the kindest and most amiable of all my mountain friends.

I am an actor and of course I respond very positively to flattery.

Spirits are as real as the powers they personify.

Sometimes you can play against type, or you can just repeat what they've already done. It can be an obstacle; it's a very fine line.

When fundamentalism comes to kill, it can kill with the language - the Apostle James says this, not me - and even with a knife, no?

There's a lot of stress involved when your house is underwater.

In a sense, sexuality is the built-in psychedelic experience that only a very few people manage to evade.