I think politicians misjudge our intelligence. We can, and do, see through them. But I quite enjoy watching political programmes because they get the heart going.

Working keeps me young. Anything that exercises the brain like learning lines.

It's a very powerful medium now, and should be celebrated as such, because we have the greatest television in the world.

They do say that the profession gets increasingly difficult, but my career seems to have been inside out.

I always write about war, love, death, and injustice. There's plenty of that around, so I never run out of ideas.

Grief is a process, not a state.

Culture is the intersection of people and life itself. It's how we deal with life, love, death, birth, disappointment... all of that is expressed in culture.

I get asked, 'What do you miss most about being a pastor?' I think it's the intimacy, the incredible gift of intimacy. You go through death with somebody, with their families, and there's an intimacy that comes through that that is just incomparable.