I have outlived most of my more athletic contemporaries who jogged, golfed and squashed themselves into coronary occlusion.

Everyone had a Japanese maple, although after Pearl Harbor most of these were patriotically poisoned, ringbarked and extirpated.

I love Australia - I think.

There is no more terrible fate for a comedian than to be taken seriously.

I have outlived most of my more athletic contemporaries who jogged, golfed and squashed themselves into coronary occlusion.

The whole point of art, aside from the aesthetic pleasure it yields, is that it provides a bridge to the past; that seductive land where we all find certainty and consolation. Nothing quite spans this gulf with such immediacy as the art of popular song.

Sport is a loathsome and dangerous pursuit.