My hovercraft is full of eels.

I think it takes a long time, as you get older, to realize just how crazy the world is, just how ridiculous it all is.

I tend to have an odd split in my mind: I tend to look at it as a writer and when the writing thing is OK and I'm happy with it, then I put on my actor's hat.

When people say 'I'm not a prude, but ...' what they mean is 'I am a prude, and ...'.

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.

If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you more open to my ideas. And if I can persuade you to laugh at the particular point I make, by laughing at it you acknowledge its truth.

As Daniel Levitin writes, our brain is a "giant pattern detector." If we read something that coincides with what we already believe we're more likely to give it credence, while the opposite is not true.