I must have read every issue of 'Punch' published in the 20th century, and I think in the process I picked up the true voice of English humour - that amiable, fairly liberal, laconic voice which you find in something like 'Three Men in a Boat.'

Personal’s not the same as important. People just think it is.

Probably the last sound heard before the Universe folded up like a paper hat would be someone saying, "What happens if I do this?"

Building a temple didn't mean you believed in gods, it just meant you believed in architecture.

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can.

Not for the first time in the history of the universe, someone for whom communication normally came as effortlessly as a dream was stuck for inspiration when faced with a few lines on the back of a card.

Nothing I can say or devise, and nothing anybody else can say or devise, is going to be perfect.