One of the most important days of my life was when I learned to ride a bicycle.

I cut down trees, I skip and jump, I like to press wild flowers. I put on women's clothing and hang around in bars.

You can't get a suit of armour and a rubber chicken just like that. You have to plan ahead.

I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller.

I think some of the best modern writing comes now from travellers.

People are still crazy about Python after twenty-five years, which I find hard to believe.

It was a strange feeling going into a church I did not know for a service that I did not really believe in, but once inside I couldn't help a feeling of warmth and security. Outside there were wars and road accidents and murders, striptease clubs and battered babies and frayed tempers and unhappy marriages and people contemplating suicide and bad jokes, but once in St. Martin's there was peace. Surely people go to church not to involve themselves in the world's problems but to escape from them.