I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that's to get rid of all my other desires.

English television from the Fifties to the Nineties was the least bad in the world, and now it's just as bad as it is anywhere.

I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that's to get rid of all my other desires

I think it's because in America you always get the sense that if you fail, you can just pack up your things and go somewhere else and try again. But in England, it's so geographically small that if somebody succeeds here, it reduces your chances of succeeding.

We have too many cellphones. We've got too many internets. We have got to get rid of those machines. We have too many machines now.

A wonderful thing about true laughter is that it just destroys any kind of system of dividing people.