I did six series for the BBC and that was enough. I've been writing for ten years, which is more challenging artistically.

If I won the lottery I'd start a charity that helped little family hardware stores, cobblers and fruit shops open in city centres.

My name is Alexei Yuri Gagarin Siege of Stalingrad Glorious Five Year Plan Sputnik Tractor Moscow Dynamo Back Four Balowski. Me Dad was a bit of a Communist, know what I mean?

Honestly, sometimes I get really fed up of my subconscious - it's like it's got a mind of its own.

People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.

Americans have different ways of saying things. They say 'elevator', we say 'lift'... they say 'President', we say 'stupid psychopathic git.

Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, may have had his charms, but he really couldn't be considered hip.

There's a part of me that still hates everything, and my natural view default setting is still very cynical and dark

I've been going to Granada for many years and 12 years ago bought a house a few miles outside the city.

If sitcoms were easy to write, there'd be a lot of good ones, and there aren't.

Dire Straits is a great band. Someone tells you they like ""Brothers in Arms"" and immediately you know they're a stupid annoying git.

Who saidI can't wear my ConverseWith my dress, well babyThat's just me!

I define my journey, I enjoy it too.

Son, in life you do not fight battles because you expect to win......you fight them merely because they need to be fought.-Snagglepuss

Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.

Nothing is so contagious as example.

What's that?" "The laundry basket?" "No, next to it." "I don't see anything next to it." "It's my last shred of dignity. It's very small.

The moment you have protected an individual, you have protected society.

Simple ideas become obsessions, almost like a meditation.

I am so deaf I am debarred from hearing all the time articulation and have to depend on the judgment of others.

I never want it to be a point where I'm so comfortable that I'm slacking.