England Their England by AG Macdonell which was written in the thirties and is about a young Scotsman who's got shell shocked during the First World War… I love it.

I do have a residual belief that, if at all possible, you should try not to mock the weak.

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.

I've seen the Pokémon movie, which is probably the worst movie ever made on any subject ever.

All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up.

Modest about our national pride - and inordinately proud of our national modesty.

I get paid to do what I enjoy, not that common a condition.

There's an awful lot of terrible television which I could do, but I mostly stick to Have I Got News for You.

The best comedy is where you attack the strong, not the weak.

You have a huge amount of confidence when you're younger, which slowly ebbs away for the rest of your life. You think: 'No problem. I can do that. Why shouldn't I do it?'

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.

Noah got a word from God then built upon that word. Then when the storm came he stood on what he built according to the word of God!

A true man never frets about his place in the world but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature and swings there as easily as a star.

The past is that which we possess fully and in whole.

I feel the same way about disco as I do about herpes.

Science is the poetry of the intellect and poetry the science of the heart's affections.

Three quarters of the miseries and misunderstandings in the world would finish if people were to put on the shoes of their adversaries and understood their points of view

I think the vetting we have for refugees is vastly better than the Europeans have.

Know yourself and go in swinging.

Sit loosely in the saddle.

The king who makes war on his enemies tenderly distresses his subjects most cruelly.