I never imagined when I began writing in the early 1960s I'd become professional and my life would be transformed.

Love is the only thing that keeps me sane.

It's no surprise to me that intellectuals commit suicide, go mad or die from drink. We feel things more than other people. We know the world is rotten and that chins are ruined by spots.

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.

The monarchy is finished. It was finished a while ago, but they're still making the corpses dance.

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.