The English contribution to world cuisine: the chip.

When you get to my age, and I'm 66 now, you realize that the world is a madhouse and that most people are operating in fantasy anyway. So once you realise that, it doesn't bother you much.

You have to create boundaries of space and then you have to create boundaries of time.

We all operate in two contrasting modes, which might be called open and closed. The open mode is more relaxed, more receptive, more exploratory, more democratic, more playful and more humorous. The closed mode is the tighter, more rigid, more hierarchical, more tunnel-visioned. Most people, unfortunately spend most of their time in the closed mode.

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

I think the hard thing for young comedians is that the majority of the young people in the audience out there don't have the wide range of references.

Come to me. I want to plow you like a Calgary driveway at Christmas.