"I play around with my Japanese Garden. Since Im half way to 70 today I need to start pruning trees and sharpening plants like an old fart."

“There's a famous saying: "If you pass the square ball in your own defensive third it must not be intercepted."”

“We act and walk and speak and talk in ways that consolidate an impression of being a man or being a woman.”

Source : "Your Behavior Creates Your Gender". Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. January 13, 2011.

“God spoke to me clearly and said, 'Did I give my son Jesus on the cross expecting nothing in return?' God bankrupted heaven and gave the best gift he could give. He gave the best offering he could give. What did God need? He needed sons and daughters, he gave the very thing he needed. You can bring God a gift fully expecting something in return. Get to the phone!'”

“No male writer is likely to be asked to sit on a panel addressing itself to the special problems of a male writer.”

“And may we not say, Adeimantus, that the most gifted minds, when they are ill- educated, become the worst?”

“Stage actors are usually much more conscious of speaking up and making sure that everyone can hear in the back of the theatre; a film actor probably thinks of that a little less. Unfortunately, there's a style of acting going round, especially with the younger actors, where they talk without even moving their lip. Maybe it's because my hearing probably isn't what it was 40 years ago but I'm sitting there going "What did they say"?”

“I'm not a sponge exactly, but I find that something I look at is a great opportunity for ideas.”

“Most wars are not fought over shortages of resources such as food and water, but rather over conquest, revenge, and ideology.”

Source : "Steven Pinker: 'Artists used to gush about the beauty of war. The First World War put an end to that'". Interview with Clint Witchalls, www.independent.co.uk. 10 November, 2011.