Technology frightens me to death. It's designed by engineers to impress other engineers, and they always come with instruction booklets that are written by engineers for other engineers - which is why almost no technology ever works.

Wine is wonderful stuff. But so many people are put off by the snobbery of it.

It's too difficult to start right from scratch and try and be funny out of the blue.

I can never do better than 'Fawlty Towers,' whatever I do. Now I very much want to teach young talent some rules of the game.

No hope for planet at all. But I will be gone before the planet is gone, so it's your problem.

By watching the great, old comedians I picked up a few tricks about how to do physical comedy. And whenever I could learn something, I sort of added that to my repertoire.

I think that I feel an indignation when I don't understand something.