Either people walk round dressed as chickens or they listen to Beethoven.

Why write about the past? Well, there's more of it.

Bureaucrats shouldn't be in charge of comedy.

The really good idea is always traceable back quite a long way, often to a not very good idea which sparked off another idea that was only slightly better, which somebody else misunderstood in such a way that they then said something which was really rather interesting.

Would you take a billion dollars, if as part of the deal the Earth were made uninhabitable a year after your death? ... well, of course not; you care about your friends, above all your children, any grandchildren. But ... what if the deal calls for the planet to be poisoned a thousand years later? We feel strong obligations to generations in the near future - should we not feel the same way about our children's great-grandchildren and generations beyond them?

I would like to do my own eulogy, and then shoot myself and then get in the coffin.

He who laughs most, learns best.