I'm not careful with my money at all these days. I buy people a lot of dinners!

I don't invest in the stock market, but I have pension funds - some in America and the UK.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours.

I got locked into a tradition [at Cambridge] of doing comedy.

I never pay any attention to figures.

I don't necessarily know much about comedy, I don't spend a lot of time watching it. Mainly because all my life for about 50 years I've had comedy.

When I was 23 I started writing for I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again and was paid three guineas for every minute's airtime.