Better to toil blindly, beating every stone in turn for grains of gold, whether they contain any or not, than lie down in apathetic decay.
I'm pretty good at gardening. It consumes my time, and it feels like I'm doing something constructive.
I'm not immune to the charms of the female form. And when I was 17 and I spent every spare minute surfing, most of the girls we hung out with would be topless.
Time goes a lot quicker when the work is a lot more enjoyable.
I think my kids are pretty well-rounded citizens of the world.
I am very straight-forward and direct. If I disagree with something, I say something about it.
Sometimes the intensity and the grind of doing television can wear you down, but at the same time there's something about the repetition, the sheer mass of work that you do that's also liberating.
And that was what I was asking to happen and I was told that the indictment would be signed, but I was coming to the end of my one-year contract, I had to return to New Zealand for personal reasons.
One of the things you learn very early in writing for television, especially, is that compressing the story is always a good idea.
When I say or do something I do it, I don't give a damn what you think, I'm doing this for me.
I recently discussed with an intelligent and well-disposed man the threat of another war, which in my opinion would seriously endanger the existence of mankind, and I remarked that only a supranational organization would offer protection from that danger. Thereupon my visitor, very calmly and coolly, said to me: "Why are you so deeply opposed to the disappearance of the human race?".