No means yes in grasshopper language.

People said, ‘You must be mad, or on drugs,’ which I found a bit disappointing. What about imagination? It reflects our time that people sooner assume you’re on drugs or mad, rather than free.

Reality depresses me. I need to find fantasy worlds and escape in them.

It's impossible to be unhappy while wearing a poncho!

All my friends got dogs and cats for Christmas, and I got a starfish called Roy. I used to take him down to the park on a lead.

When I'm 70 I might be a man in a park just wandering around, speaking in tongues with kids throwing bread at me.

Never try and go on a solo mission on your own.

I've had a really weird day, some joker threw bamboo in the penguin enclosure. They all vaulted out. It was a nightmare, it took me all morning to get them back in.

I don't really like jokes in a way. I mean gags are fine but I like weird moments where what you have isn't really a joke, just tiny moments.

I've got it all in here ultra violets, flying saucers, strawberry bootlace come on get involved.

You know the black bits in bananas? Are they tarantulas' eggs?

You turn the light on, you get all kinds of bugs.

Dictators seem to learn from history much better than democrats

God, I'm glad I'm not me.

Dream as big as you want because they come true everyday

I think we need to draw a contextual distinction between what the neo-fascists of Europe would like to do and what the state of Israel has done.

Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing.

If I cried me a river of all my confessions, would I drown in my shallow regret?

The feeling of love - is a fervent desire of goodness to a man.

I am determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive.

But there is a difference here: When Jewish children are murdered, Arabs celebrate the deed. The death of an Arab child is no cause for celebration in Israel.