A small child being dragged to bed peered curiously at me as it passed, then waved. We waved back, not being entirely sure how else to respond to small creatures like that.

Never underestimate the ridiculous things that have been done in the name of religious-semantic obscurity.

There was almost a flicker of humanity in the man. The kind of human who pulled wings off flies as a kid, but still human.

You know how it is -- you get older, you get wiser, you start to ask yourself 'is it any use being able to summon creatures of the nether deeps when I could be watching BBC 4?

Make me a shadow on the wall.

Men don't ask other men if they're getting home OK, they just assume that beneath the frail, weak exterior lurks a muscle-building kung fu master fearless of ever being mugged.

We be light, we be life, we be fire! We sing electric flame, we rumble underground wind, we dance heaven! Come be we and be free!

...for life is magic, magic is life, the left-over life we don't even notice we're living.

Whatever happened next, good or bad, it would be wonderful finding out.

Curiosity may have killed the cat, but paranoia was what tied it up in a sack and buried it in wet concrete.

Make me a shadow on the wall!

Growing up working with my dad, I really had no interest in doing the actual work, so I was always like drawing on the wood, doing stuff like that. It just has a real hands-on approach.

Phil Spector is probably a better date than Roman Polanski.

One of the things we must be able to agree to is to lose an election and not take to the streets.

Think of me as the praying mantis of the supernatural world. Aren't those the bugs that bite the heads off the males? Link looked skeptical. Yes. Then they eat them

Entertainment and art have power. Our culture is molded more so by entertainment than any other influence.

The pace of life feels morally dangerous to me.

Charonte are guarding a Dimme? Is the world coming to an end and I missed the memo? (Stryker)

Soundbite and slogan, strapline and headline, at every turn we meet hyperbole. The soaring inflation of the English language is more urgently in need of control than the economic variety.

It seems like when I first started, people got into comedy because they wanted to be good comedians.

If I wait for someone else to validate my existence, it will mean that I’m shortchanging myself.