The one thing I remember about Christmas was that my father used to take me out in a boat about ten miles offshore on Christmas Day, and I used to have to swim back. Extraordinary. It was a ritual. Mind you, that wasn't the hard part. The difficult bit was getting out of the sack.

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.

The main evolutionary significance of humor is that it gets us from the closed mode to the open mode quicker than anything else.

Always start where the energy is.

I think that I feel an indignation when I don't understand something.

The Americans all love 'The Holy Grail', and the English all love 'Life Of Brian', and I'm afraid on this one, I side with the English.

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.