We don't consider the Wizard of Oz or Father Christmas to be too old. They're still magical characters, and the fact they've been around the block only adds to their magic.

I wish I'd known that one day the geek would inherit the Earth.

Keep going and don't give up. You're doing wonderfully. You'll know how to fly this thing eventually.

I suppose I just like being arty. That's all. Arty.

I'd say, don't listen to what anyone says: you're good. Go put your anorak on. Get your thick bottle-top specs. Draw your little cartoons and your comics and keep writing to the BBC.

I love people where, at the end of the day, they'll pick up a paintbrush and paint clouds. They can physically make things.

There is no such thing as too much swearing. Swearing is just a piece of linguistic mechanics. The words in-between are the clever ones.

I found American actors quite scary because they're brilliant actors and brilliantly funny, and they never stopped once you wound them up... off they went and they just deliver fantastic stuff.

I'm not an extravagant man. The fact that I can have a coffee out whenever I want still makes me feel grateful.

Every viewer who ever turned on Doctor Who has taken him into his heart. He belongs to all of us.

The older I get, the more I think lightness of touch is an incredibly difficult thing to do.

Submission is not in the bowing of heads or knees but in the humbling of your whole being (spirit, soul and body)

Women who marry early are often overly enamored of the kind of man who looks great in wedding pictures and passes the maid of honor his telephone number.

It baseball is an American institution and more lasting than some marriages, war, Supreme Court decisions and even major depressions

Mathematics is, in many ways, the most precious response that the human spirit has made to the call of the infinite.

Preparation for defense is an inalienable prerogative of a sovereign state.

You can travel fifty thousand miles in America without once tasting a piece of good bread.

Melodies are very important in a song. Having a great melody and a great hook. That's what I would always come up with a great melody and that's important.

Once I make up my mind, I'm full of indecision.

Sooner or later, everybody pays the Piper!