Most social problems could be helped or prevented if people had more money and practical advice.

Every time I start a new piece of work, I spend a long while under the duvet thinking I can't do it.

She liked people. Me, I can take them or leave them, but mostly leave them.

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.

There's only one thing more boring than listening to other people's dreams, and that's listening to their problems.

Adrian Mole's father was so angry that so many pepole got divorced nowadays. HE had been unhappilly married for 30 years, why should everybody else get away?

Yes - I am usually overweight. I have had to be interested in diet because of being diabetic for 30 years and having kidney failure.