Economics is like the Dutch language - I'm told it makes sense, but I have my doubts.

Americans just don't understand dry wit.

Teenagers falling off skateboards - funny. Nut shots - funny. Breaking wind - funny. The world cannot change those. Those three things are columns upon which humor is built.

I don't know if there is some psychological thing of wanting to know where your doctor got his degree from before he comes into the medical room.

Every empire has to get sucked down the drain. As a British person, I know how it feels.

We in Britain stopped evolving gastronomically with the advent of the pie. Everything beyond that seemed like a brave, frightening new world. We knew the French were up to something across the Channel, but we didn't want anything to do with it.

Anybody who claims to be excited for April Fools' Day is probably a sociopath.