The blunt large questions become connected to smaller, apparently esoteric ones.
I've got a very peculiar sort of fame, based on being on the telly. It doesn't mean you have the lifestyle people expect.
In Britian we have a free press. It's not a pretty press, but it's free. The people who can't bear the Daily Mail, they say: 'you should ban it'. No no, no no, you don't ban it. . . you don't buy it.
Modest about our national pride - and inordinately proud of our national modesty.
All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up.
There's an awful lot of terrible television which I could do, but I mostly stick to Have I Got News for You.
I get paid to do what I enjoy, not that common a condition.
As far as arrangements after the basic track is cut, if I'm writing a horn arrangement or playing strings, I might arrange that, plan that out. Other times, I'll just sit and roll tape.
The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.
You don't have to be some sort of freak to meditate
Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.