I'm absolute attacking my own instinct for politeness, but I think I admire artists who just speak out or who are strong, so it's very hard.

Come back, and do that thing, be lovely to each-other.

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

I have written it before and am not ashamed to write it again. Without Wodehouse I am not sure that I would be a tenth of what I am today -- whatever that may be. In my teenage years, his writings awoke me to the possibilities of language. His rhythms, tropes, tricks and mannerisms are deep within me. But more than that, he taught me something about good nature. It is enough to be benign, to be gentle, to be funny, to be kind.

A cut glass English accent can fool unsuspecting Americans into detecting a brilliance that isn't there

Talent is inborn, but technique is learned.

Those who rule the world get so little opportunity to run about and laugh and play in it.