I get to be the first doctor in the family [because of the honorary degree they're giving me].

Life has a very simple plot: first you're here and then you're not.

I will jump on anybody's private plane at the drop of a hat. I'm an old-fashioned lower-middle-class boy.

Life is a comedy when watching and a tragedy when experiencing. I try and share anything I have.

My first professional job was appearing in a disastrous theatre production of Oh, What a Lovely War in Leicester Rep, shortly after leaving Cambridge.

Pattycake, pattycake, baker's man; good morning, madam, I'm a psychiatrist

I think the special thing about Python is that it's a writers' commune. The writers are in charge. The writers decide what the material is.