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.

I have several times made a poor choice by avoiding a necessary confrontation.

If you want to know who your friends are, have a major failure.

If you are leaping a ravine, the moment of takeoff is a bad time to be considering alternative strategies.

Although I had good hand-eye coordination, I was so tall and skinny and muscularly weak that I just was not well coordinated. But what I started to do quite early on was watch some of the great old silent comedians, like Laurel and Hardy and Chaplin, and then later on Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton.

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.

I don't want to hurt people.