All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up.

I do have a residual belief that, if at all possible, you should try not to mock the weak.

In Britian we have a free press. It's not a pretty press, but it's free. The people who can't bear the Daily Mail, they say: 'you should ban it'. No, no, no, no, you don't ban it... you don't buy it.

I've seen the Pokémon movie, which is probably the worst movie ever made on any subject ever.

Modest about our national pride - and inordinately proud of our national modesty.

I get paid to do what I enjoy, not that common a condition.

There's an awful lot of terrible television which I could do, but I mostly stick to Have I Got News for You.

The best comedy is where you attack the strong, not the weak.

You have a huge amount of confidence when you're younger, which slowly ebbs away for the rest of your life. You think: 'No problem. I can do that. Why shouldn't I do it?'

I've got a very peculiar sort of fame, based on being on the telly. It doesn't mean you have the lifestyle people expect.

My mother was a terrific force in my life. Wartime-generation woman, hadn't gone to university but should have done. Was very funny, very verbal, very clever, very witty.

She'd known me my whole life. It's hard to throw away history. It was like you were throwing a part of yourself.

The task is to become church for them, among them and with them, and under Spirit of God to lead them to become church in their own culture.

Love ends abruptly. In fact, this is central to endings of most sort. We just don't admit that.

Monsters just outside our peripheral vision are scarier to contemplate than monsters miles away or in someplace only a fool would set foot in.

Good positions don't win games, good moves do

Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it; write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it.

Having one of your like dumb sort of stream of consciousness tweets used against you on a right wing website is the ultimate compliment.

The part that's difficult is being single, at 41, after 10 years of marriage and two kids. That's like having a bunch of money in a currency of a country that doesn't exist anymore.

The only limitations one has, are the ones they place on themselves

It is absurd to think that a man can believe in Christ, with his heart, and it not have a radical affect on the rest of his life.