The best laughs are on the recognition of truth.

Where if you're in a universe where you have to accept ideas, you'll never know if your partner wanted the garbage you're handing them. They have to take it.

Light entertainment means it mustn't teach you anything.

Wherever you go it's the same fear. And the same protective devices. There is one big error I think and partly my fault which is that a lot of things are taught to beginners which you can cast off later on.

The improvisation had to be in public, because you only get value playing to strangers.

I tell people not to do their best. I don't know when that started. Quite a while ago. Because I . . . when they're doing their best I don't get their best. So I try to persuade them to be average. Because if you're wonderful and you're average, you're still wonderful. If you're a bad improviser and you're average, you're what you are.

Imagination is as effortless as perception, unless we think it might be ‘wrong’, which is what our education encourages us to believe.