My purist comedy friends accuse me of being a Jack of all trades and master of none.

I don't mind not being cool; I wear a cardigan.

If you want something Scottish, go get yourself a kilt.

I went to China for a brief working visit, and I thought that Shanghai was interesting, but Beijing totally grabbed me.

I realised that to compare your insides with other people's outsides leads to unhappiness.

Christians, you and your churches don't get to be millionaires while other people have nothing at all. They're your bloody rules! Either stick to them or abandon the faith.

I have learnt that I am incapable of packing the right amount of clothing, probably because I start 10 minutes before I'm supposed to leave, and that I truly hate airports.

I find myself by default an atheist but fairly unhappily so. It would be bloody marvelous if there was a god.

I'm more pompous and self-assured and determined that if - you know - if the truth can be told so as to be understood, it will be believed.

If Pac-Man had affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive electronic music.

I stumbled on a joke idea and style that worked, the audience went with it and, from that moment on, I was hooked. It's an amazing feeling.

I'm beginning to think of hope as a dangerous, terrifying thing.

Wisdom is knowing you know nothing

When you get a new worldview you get a new world. It's like the shift from medieval Christianity to the Renaissance and enlightenment.

I only want to do what I really want to do; otherwise, I'm content to sit here and play my guitar all day.

Maybe Life is random. No fate. No God. Just Time.

To all our means of culture is added the powerful incentive to personal ambition, no post of honor is so high but the poorest may hope to reach it.

Doth not a man die even in his birth? The breaking of prison is death, and what is our birth, but a breaking of prison?

Like adverts, today's works of art aim to create a brand, even if they have no product to sell except themselves.

Yes, last year in interviewing. Empathy is when you repeat the last three words the patient says and nod your head.

Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere.