years ago we would have been burned for this. Now what I am suggesting is that we've advanced.

I was always a sports nut but I've lost interest now in whether one bunch of mercenaries in north London is going to beat another bunch of mercenaries from west London.

Either people walk round dressed as chickens or they listen to Beethoven.

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

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.

The writing is the most important bit, and performing it is just closing the circle because I'm less likely to screw it up than anyone else.

If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?