I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.

Well, isn't it splendid & rather toffee?

It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.

I've always had great respect for Paddington because he is amusingly English and eccentric. He is a great British institution and my generation grew up with the books and then Michael Horden's animations.

I do think it's important not to be absolutely sure, so sure that you can't reinvent yourself in some way, or at least rediscover the truth of why you think what you think, and not just take it as an assumption.

P. 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.

Atheism is not just about not believing there is a God, but on the assumption that there is one, what kind of God is he?