I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.

We've all got to look at ourselves, start with yourself, that's all you can do. I believe that we can act responsibly as a group, it's just that there are vested interests telling us not to bother.

There are lots of things I could have done for the money, but I've made a great living doing the things I want to do.

Comedy will always be central to what I do, it's just an instinct for me, but I am a writer and always have been.

The worst thing about being a great power is when you're not one any more. It takes centuries to get over it.

You're mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund

The internet was supposed to liberate knowledge, but in fact it buried it, first under a vast sewer of ignorance, laziness, bigotry, superstition and filth and then beneath the cloak of political surveillance. Now...cyberspace exists exclusively to promote commerce, gossip and pornography. And of course to hunt down sedition. Only paper is safe. Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar, you have to hold it, you have to read it.