I have Van Gogh's ear for music

We gave you a perfectly good language and you f***ed up.

there is no reason why anyone should understand how it works… and of course no reason why anyone should care … unless you are curious, in which case I love you, for curiosity about the world and all its corners is a beautiful thing.

Homosexuals are not interested in making other people homosexuals. Homophobes are interested in making other people homophobes.

As I say I don't want to kill myself, I just wouldn't mind dying.

It is easy to forget that the most important aspect of comedy, after all, its great saving grace, is its ambiguity. You can simultaneously laugh at a situation, and take it seriously.

I think my view is that whenever you project into the future you're never likely to be accurate in the details, or the paraphernalia and style. It's in the spirit of it.