I took my sight and mobility for granted.

I think we take it for granted that if you are with your husband after 30 years, then he is the love of your life.

I am the world's worst diabetic.

I'd love a day devoid of responsibilities. I've often thought about going to a hotel just to have a day away from everything.

I think it's essential for comic writers to have a hate figure, a despot, a regime to react against, and I think Thatcher was perfect for me, I loathed everything she stood for.

Barry Kent's father looks like a big ape and has got more hair on the back of his hands than my father has got on his entire head.

I have decided to be a poet. My father said there isn't a suitable career structure for poets and no pensions and other boring things, but I am quite decided.