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.
Stephen FryNo adolescent ever wants to be understood, which is why they complain about being misunderstood all the time.
Stephen FryAll the big words -virtue, justice, truth, ...- are dwarfed by the greatness of kindness
Stephen FryP. G. Wodehouse... used, when in town, to solve the problem of the long walk to the post-office by the simple expedient of tossing his letters out of his window: his belief that the average human, finding a stamped and addressed envelope on the pavement, would naturally pop it into the nearest pillar-box was never once, in decades, shown to be unfounded.
Stephen Fry