If you wish to kill yourself but lack the courage to, I think a visit to Palmerston North will do the trick.

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

The English contribution to world cuisine: the chip.

Political correctness is a bit like a granny, a maiden aunt arriving at a party when everyone's having a good time. And she comes in, they all start sort of buttoning up and becoming self-conscious and behaving properly and then when she leaves, you can have fun again.

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

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.

...when you collaborate with someone else on something creative, you get to places that you would never get to on your own. The way an idea builds as it careens back and forth between good writers is so unpredictable. Sometimes it depends on people misunderstanding each other, and that's why I don't think there's any such thing as a mistake in the creative process. You never know where it might lead.