I love Stewart Lee's 'Comedy Vehicle' on BBC2. The guy is a genius.

A lifetime’s work, to try and say one thing that’s true.

Looking back, I spent a lot of time sitting in pubs when I should have been perfecting my playwriting.

If you can write a character who is attractive but morally reprehensible, then you've got a character. It's got to feel like people I know and it doesn't just become a bag of tricks.

I'm English and love England. Whenever I'm there, I'm always seeing the present but feeling its past.

God rules through light.

You see it as me going back. I see it as me staying on track.

Everything has a finsh line. You just have to keep moving forward until you cross it.

I always ended up doing things I didn’t want to do today just so I didn’t regret not doing them tomorrow.

We don't realize that we face a frustrating situation in which we win every battle, but we lose the war.

It was always difficult to get cattle returned once a marriage was dissolved.

I don't know why people are so reluctant to say they're feminists. Could it be any more obvious that we still live in a patriarchal world when feminism is a bad word?

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Remember that our nation's first great leaders were also our first great scholars.

Failure is the inspiration of tomorrow's entrepreneurs.