To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.

Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.

Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.

I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me to be the most civilised music in the world.