I'm too nervous to eat before I go onstage, and I'll usually eat out after the performance or when I get home at midnight.

By puberty I learned that nothing worth having could be easily attained and to succeed one must be single minded.

As long as we prioritize material truths over spiritual truths we will live in tyranny because we are living an illusion

You must not feel persecuted and examined. Liberate yourself from the idea that people are watching you.

The thing I thought about doing it was it's Comic Relief and you've got to be funny. So although I did try to sing properly it obviously has hilarious results when you can't sing.

People say you should read your criticism because it will make you a better person but it doesn't. It just makes you a sad bitter old showbiz nightmare.

I get fixated when I'm bleeding -- I can see why they went in for blood-letting in the medieval times because it makes you feel a bit better. When I cut myself, the drama of it calms me down.

A library doesn't need windows. A library is a window.

There are two types of people in this world: one who opens a packet of biscuits, has one and puts the rest back in the cupboard, and one who eats the whole packet in one go.

The bad-boy label is just an assumption.

There are 10-20 times more male comics than female comics; it's something to do with the social structure of society.

It is no coincidence that the century of total war coincided with the century of central banking.

Some flowers need flames to find their way into this world.

If we want to know God personally, to relate to Him intimately, we must be prepared to receive and experience His glory.

No one's ever really given me any style advice. I wear what I want, and it doesn't matter what other people think.

The first sense of mutual love excludes other feelings; it will have the soul all to itself.

It has always been something I could do, and it may seem odd that in my case I seem to create an interesting narrative and frustrate the readers opportunities to follow it at every step.

a manufactured interest has no staying quality - especially if it involves any hard work.

How and when to try new things and to what degree are critical... Too soon and too radical a change and you may not master anything or develop a style.

Forget the past and live in the present hour. Now is the time to work, the time to fill The soul with noblest thoughts, the time to will.

I hate using this term [miracle]. I'm a man of science. I'm a doctor. I don't use this word. But he said, it's a miracle your mom's alive.