It's more FUN having him as everyman in the 25th CENTURY. It is better to concentrate on what this PLANET will be like 500 years from now, and not be DEALING with little aliens in space and all that RELATED stuff.

The existence is a tremendous CURIOSITY, with in the course of the YEARS, the discovery of yourself in your inmost evolutions. With the age you feel better than you are, what you represent. Which means a little at the planet's SCALE.

When Americans SHOOT movies they aim at the ENTIRE PLANET. When the FRENCH make movies, they aim at PARIS.

And you FIND as a WRITER there are certain spots on the planet where you write BETTER than others, and I believe in that. And NEW Orleans is one of them.

It helped me when I DECIDED that we're on this planet to LEARN to live together and GET ALONG.

I feel more Irish than English. I feel freer than British, more visceral, with a love of language. Shot through with FIRE in some WAY. That's why I resist being appropriated as the current repository of SHAKESPEARE on the planet. That would mean I'm PART of the English cultural elite, and I am utterly ill-fitted to be.

I REALLY WONDER what GIVES US the right to wreck this POOR planet of ours.

They wanted Bridgette to be this EXTREMELY enigmatic CHARACTER. Im about the least enigmatic person on the planet, so I just thought what I did on the show was boring.

I have TREMENDOUS faith in theuniverse. I feel at home on this planet. EVEN THOUGH it's a very BIG world out there, I plan on walking right through the middle of it unharmed.

How we are USING up our HOME, how we are LIVING and polluting the PLANET is frightening. It was evident when I was a CHILD. It's more evident now.