The Normal is the good smile in a child’s eyes - all right. It is also the dead stare in a million adults.

I speak for all mediocrities in the world. I am their champion. I am their patron saint.

It's an extraordinary thing about Mozart is that you never tire of him... he never bores me, and he doesn't... not only bore me, that's too strong a word.

I think people nowadays do tend to blame their parents for everything.

My actual childhood, as opposed to my adolescence, was not spent in London.

Black Comedy is a farce that is played in the dark, as you know, with the lights full on. It's the Chinese convention of reversing light and dark, and exactly where anybody is at any given moment is the play.

Can you think of anything worse one can do to anybody than take away their worship?