Ban poetry. And make sure that anyone caught reading it is expelled from school. Then it will acquire the glamour.

The British secret service was staffed at one point almost entirely by alcoholic homosexuals working for the KGB

I actually didn't like that feeling of being out of touch because what I do depends on being in touch. But it's fun to talk about. That's one of the real dangers of drugs: they're too much fun to talk about.

They had a... dog called Bluey. A know psychopath, Bluey would attack himself if nothing else was available.

Television is simultaneously blamed, often by the same people, for worsening the world and for being powerless to change it.

Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world.

I think the great trick of doing my sort of thing is to learn to use your downtime, and of course in the media and especially in television, there's a heck of a lot of time of waiting around. And I think the trick is to use that.