Television provokes strong opinions, and sometimes we try a bit too hard to appeal to everyone.

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.

Dead people are just great. Meet me when you are.

There is only one big thing-desire. And before it when it is big all is little.

Man dies of cold, not of darkness.

It's when we become afraid of everything and worried about everything that you are never going to reach your highest potential.

You save your soul by saving someone else's body.

This is great if you know all those "not to do" strategies. Sometimes you learn the "not to do's" by doing. The key is to fail forward fast. Try, fail, learn, and quickly try again.

The tears of affliction are often needed to keep the eye of faith bright.

We do not necessarily improve with age: for better or worse we become more like ourselves.

Do you think I'd be stupid enough to go running with someone I was foolin' with?

There are no mundane things outside of Buddhism, and there is no Buddhism outside of mundane things.