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

I'm struck by how laughter connects you with people. It's almost impossible to maintain any kind of distance or any sense of social hierarchy when you're just howling with laughter. Laughter is a force for democracy.

Wine is wonderful stuff. But so many people are put off by the snobbery of it.

You can't make Christ funny. He's self-aware, he's too flexible within the situation. It's rigidity, it's when the ego takes over and the behavior becomes inappropriate that it becomes funny.

Some actors, I think, want to feel that they are as creative as the writer. And the answer is, frankly, they're not.

I want to write a book which is the history of comedy.

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.