"Mother Teresa was asked what was the meaning of life, and she said to help other people, and I thought, 'What a strange thing to say' - but maybe it's the right thing to say."

"And I'm sure after Facebook it will be the little cameras that we have implanted into the palms of our hands and we'll be debating whether we should get them, and then we'll all get them."

"Society will decide after the technology is created what we will and won't accept."

"As an actor, you have to be open to doing things where you look stupid, to be experimental."

"Words derive their power from the original word."

"I write sets of books, but I've also written a lot of orphans."

"All writers write about the past, and I try to make it come alive so you can see what happened."

"I don't read the critics."