You should be as alive as you can, until you're totally dead!

I actually very rarely see comedy myself, and although I admire the work of some comics, it does come from all over, so I’ll get a charge out of some fiction writers and poets.

I write all the time, but you just want to be careful what you put out. That's all. You want to have the confidence that you've done what you need to do to it, because otherwise it's an exercise in vanity.

Eggs! They're not a food, they belong in no group! They're just farts clothed in substance!

Two young, fit, healthy attractive people in love? There’s nothing worse to look at in the world.

He could dismiss several schools of philosophy by shifting slightly in his chair or toting his whisky glass.

When I was a child, I wanted to watch things that made me laugh. It's attacking boredom, as simple as that. I was 19 when I first went to a comedy club - I wanted to do it, so I gave it a try and that was it. I found my office.