For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.
Nothing brings you closer together than blind terror.
Because I am an Englishman I spent most of my life in a state of embarrassment.
It's a very dangerous state. You are inclined to recklessness and kind of tune out the rest of your life and everything that's been important to you. It's actually not all that pleasurable. I don't know who the hell wants to get in a situation where you can't bear an hour without somebody's company.
I'm fully aware that if I were to change professions tomorrow, become an astronaut and be the first man to land on Mars, the headlines in the newspapers would read: `Mr. Darcy Lands on Mars.
I like playing strange characters. Some people might say it has something to do with a hidden part of myself, but I think it's a lot simpler than that: normal people are just not very interesting.
I would rather five people knew my work and thought it was good work than five million knew me and were indifferent.
The idea of waste only comes into our Christianity when we underestimate the worth of our Lord.
We already have - thanks to technology, development, skills, the efficiency of our work - enough resources to satisfy all human needs. But we don't have enough resources, and we are unlikely ever to have, to satisfy human greed.
Optimism is a cure for many things.
High self-esteem isn't a luxury. It's a necessity for anyone who has important goals to achieve.