I never had a plan. I just sort of ambled along, doing exactly what I wanted every day of my life.

Avoid employing unlucky people - throw half of the pile of CVs in the bin without reading them.

Blasphemy: a law to protect an all-powerful, supernatural deity from getting its feelings hurt.

[As a kid] I did enjoy making people laugh but I was also attracted to funny people. I'm [still] quite happy to not be the one trying to make other people laugh. I'm happy laughing at someone else. I enjoy laughing and I'll happily be the one just laughing all night if you can make me laugh.

When you get back into the editing suite in the cold light of day, the written stuff is better.

That's the amazing thing about life. You can just rub it out, like a blackboard, and start again.

Next time someone tells me they believe in God, I'll say 'Oh which one? Zeus? Hades? Jupiter? Mars? Odin? Thor? Krishna? Vishnu? Ra?...' If they say 'Just God. I only believe in the one God,' I'll point out that they are nearly as atheistic as me. I don't believe in 2,870 gods, and they don't believe in 2,869.