What is absurd is not the teachings of the founders of religion, it's what followers subsequently make of it.

I don't want to have to start being unselfish again. The great thing about being on your own is you do what you damned well like.

The World is insane. With tiny spots of sanity, here and there... Not the other way around!

The main evolutionary significance of humor is that it gets us from the closed mode to the open mode quicker than anything else.

English television from the Fifties to the Nineties was the least bad in the world, and now it's just as bad as it is anywhere.

Everything in comedy's got to be exactly right, which is why making a comedic film is kind of a difficult process, because, for most of the two years of shooting it and editing it and reshooting and all of that, it's not quite right. And it's only when you just at the end, you put the final polish on it, it becomes really funny again.

Comedy always works best when it is mean-spirited.