If Pac-Man had affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive electronic music.

I don't mind not being cool; I wear a cardigan.

If you want something Scottish, go get yourself a kilt.

I went to China for a brief working visit, and I thought that Shanghai was interesting, but Beijing totally grabbed me.

I realised that to compare your insides with other people's outsides leads to unhappiness.

Christians, you and your churches don't get to be millionaires while other people have nothing at all. They're your bloody rules! Either stick to them or abandon the faith.

I have learnt that I am incapable of packing the right amount of clothing, probably because I start 10 minutes before I'm supposed to leave, and that I truly hate airports.

I find myself by default an atheist but fairly unhappily so. It would be bloody marvelous if there was a god.

I'm more pompous and self-assured and determined that if - you know - if the truth can be told so as to be understood, it will be believed.

My purist comedy friends accuse me of being a Jack of all trades and master of none.

I stumbled on a joke idea and style that worked, the audience went with it and, from that moment on, I was hooked. It's an amazing feeling.

The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.

People understand God as the expression of the most lofty morality. Maybe He needs only perfect people.

Let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late.

I follow my heart, for I can trust it.

Men of honor will do things for their children that they would never consider doing for themselves.

Most writers write to say something about other people - and it doesn't last. Good writers write to find out about themselves - and it lasts forever.

There seeps from heavily jowled or hawk-like foreign faces The guttural sorrow of the refugees.

Cars don't cause pollution, trees do.

Writing history and biography for kids calls for special skills that can only be acquired through practice and that are different from those required for an adult audience.

Dream big but think small.