“The principle that light can be in two places at the same time is absolutely extraordinary.”

I see myself as a comic but the acting helps sell tickets for gigs.

I’m more inclined to linger in the science pages of ‘The Week’ magazine.

The thing I’d really like to see is the old London Bridge, with all the old buildings around it like Shakespeare’s Globe.

A foolproof plan for not getting a job.

Any journey around Islington involves hundreds of speed bumps that seem to tear the bottom of your car off.

Show up for your interview wearing flip flops.

I don’t want to moan about being recognised but I do get a bit of grief sometimes.

There’s a lot to do when you’re a kid – spiders to catch, girls to poke in the eye – stuff to be getting on with.

I like pubs too, but it’s hard for me to go and get proper bladdered in the way I used to.

I’m quite a curious person. I don’t mind being the one who doesn’t know things, a role I often play in QI.

I’d like to walk along that. Don’t worry, I won’t get drunk and fall in.

I dont drive around London much.

But my principle obsessions are still watching sitcoms and football.

A bambiraptor is a savage baby dear.

I liked the idea of all of humanity fitting inside a sugar cube because more than 99.9% of matter is space.

I’m not a great shopper but I do buy a lot of books. I’m the publishers’ friend – I buy a hundred books a year and read four.

Fascism is definitely and absolutely opposed to the doctrines of liberalism, both in the political and economic sphere.

It’s absolutely fatal to your writing to think about how your work will be received. It’s a betrayal of whatever talent you have.

Can you imagine a writer in England influencing? Absolutely not. And in France? It used to be, but no more-absolutely not. France used to, at least, have writers as diplomats, but not any more.

Can you imagine writers influencing things in America? Can you imagine a writer in England influencing? Absolutely not. And in France? It used to be, but no more – absolutely not. France used to, at least, have writers as diplomats, but not any more.

Thus passing through the infinite varieties of space we reach the Divine space which is absolutely free from all dimensions and constitutes the meeting point of all infinities.

The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a wage.

An Englishmans way of speaking absolutely classifies him.

I’ve been glued to the TV. I am absolutely devastated.