I'll tell you one thing, it's a cruel, cruel world.
I'm terribly nostalgic, but I'm with the Elizabethans who thought nostalgia was a disease. It's a dangerous place to be because you can get caught up in it.
I always compare reading anything on the Internet to listening at doors. If you don't want to hear anything bad about yourself, you should never do it.
They are called 'Emos' now, and before that they were 'Goths. ' They didn't have a name for it when I was one, but I was that black-wearing teenager and yes, I wore a little eyeliner.
I'm an actor and a writer, that's how I think of myself. Sometimes my time is divided equally, sometimes less equally, but that's what I do.
I'm a great believer in the beauty and the power of surprise.
That's what makes characters interesting. If Sherlock [Holmes] had started out being a straightforward man, we wouldn't be talking about him now. If he became one, that would be interesting. But you have to give him somewhere to go, as [Conan] Doyle did.
If I didn't have a conviction that a serious painter can portray Nature more profoundly than the best colour photography, I'd probably give it all up or go abstract or take up photography.
I think there's always something about design that is going to be very difficult for more than a small fraction of people to really get.
I didnt finish the stories until we went to the Philippines and I got malaria. I couldnt work and I didnt have any money, but I had seven stories. So I wrote three or four more.
There are days where I turn on the TV or I look at the news and I'm like, "I want to go to Mars. This is insane. " But I can't go to Mars! I need to face reality and just to have some hope.