I can never think of the time I spend idling in railway stations as lost; it's a waiting liberated from the three temporal vices of regret, anticipation or boredom, the weak echo of that bliss spent between lifetimes.

I can never think of the time I spend idling in railway stations as lost; it's a waiting liberated from the three temporal vices of regret, anticipation or boredom, the weak echo of that bliss spent between lifetimes.

I get airsick just licking an airmail stamp.

I always take my wife morning tea in my pyjamas. But is she grateful? No, she says she'd rather have it in a cup.

I'm playing all the right notes, just not necessarily in the right order

My neighbour asked if he could use my lawnmower and I told him of course he could, so long as he didn't take it out of my garden.

We had not had time to establish ourselves as a double act before Ernie joined the Merchant Navy. I teamed up with the brother of the late Dave Morris.