You achieve the surreal jokes through the realism by making it elastic.

I'd be hard-pressed to think of anybody who's made me laugh, who's funny, but who's also relentlessly positive.

Men look at breasts the way women look at babies. 'Aw, isn't that lovely?'

The characters can't be wittier than people are in real life. They have to be character witty.

Don't do it! Stay away from your potential. You'll mess it up, it's potential, leave it. Anyway, it's like your bank balance - you always have a lot less than you think.

Don't you DARE use party as a verb in my shop

You’re not going to learn anything if you’re not prepared to go flat, so I’m very happy to go flat.