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

I don't go to different countries to criticise their political system and tell them what they should be doing - what do I know?

I thought The Office was good, though I didn't think of it as a sitcom, just as a very good programme.

You’re not an adult at all - you're just a tall child holding a beer, having conversations you don't understand...

Religion is the yeast of death cakes. It is the most awful agent on a vulnerable mind. It's the refuge of alienated and lonely people. It's what people had before television. It yokes people together into an imaginary world. It is just people talking to their imaginary friends, at length. I wouldn't mind, but some of the people are world leaders.

I was lucky in the sense that I was never blessed with an overly reflective nature.

Black Books adheres to a more old fashioned, traditional sitcom format, which I think works, because in its own way, it's quite theatrical.