What I do believe in is the moral code of Christianity.

I don't believe Jesus was the son of God, although I'm inclined to think he might have been a great prophet.

When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him. When a man is getting worse, he understands his own badness less and less.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

I went to boarding school from the age of eight - first to prep school, then to Eton. One thing that kind of education teaches you is community living: there's little retreat. That's why people come out of it and talk about lifelong friendships forged in the furnace.

If you pick up an eighteenth-century play, at the top it says 'The Argument,' and then you have a list of characters, and then you have the play. I was just always struck by that - that, of course, good drama is about conflict.