There is no one so radical as a man-servant whose freedom of the champagne bin has been interfered with.

It would have been nice to have had unicorns.

The fact is, I loved being English. I was very happy to be turned into an English schoolboy.

Uncertainty is the normal state.

From as long as, literally as far back as I can remember I've liked puns, word jokes, I can literally recall looking at a comic at the age of six or seven and I remember what I enjoyed and what it was precisely and how the joke worked.

An artist is the magician put among men to gratify - capriciously - their urge for immortality.

The names for things don't come first. Words stagger after, hopelessly trying to become the sensation.