If, hypothetically, Western Catholicism were to review the issue of celibacy, I think it would do so for cultural reasons, not so much as a universal option.

A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.

When ‚Paul’s Boutique‘ came out, I was one of the fans that didn’t get it.

In the Western Church to which I belong, priests cannot be married as in the Byzantine, Ukrainian, Russian or Greek Catholic Churches. In those churches, the priests can be married, but the bishops have to be celibate. They are very good priests.

There’s a gap between what I want to do, what I do on camera, and what gets edited. Right? So the goal is to try and close the gaps. What’s the biggest compliment is if I read a review and it’s exactly what I wrote down in my diary before ever filming it. That’s really cool. That’s the biggest signifier of closing the gaps.

I didn’t like the play, but then I saw it under adverse conditions – the curtain was up.

I don’t watch television and I rarely go to the cinema, but I recently watched ‚The King’s Speech‘ on a flight. It was so beautiful and so simple.

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.

Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.

The fact is I am not having sex. But I feel absolutely ripe for the, what would you say? plucking?

His father is governor of Media, and though he has the greatest command given him of all the rest of my generals, he still covetously desires more, and my being without issue spurs him on to this wicked design. But Philotas takes wrong measures.

I think ‚Invisible‘ is a great song, but I don’t know how accessible it is.

I took the vow of celibacy in 1906. I had not shared my thoughts with my wife until then, but only consulted her at the time of making the vow. She had no objection.