Food is so personal - I mean someone is talking to you when people are cooking for you. I like to hear an identifiable voice.
The trouble with Freud is that he never played the Glasgow Empire Saturday night.
I haven't spoken to my mother-in-law for eighteen months-I don't like to interrupt her.
Laughter is the greatest music in the world and audiences come to my shows to escape the cares of life. They don't want to be embarrassed or insulted. They want to laugh and so do I - which is probably why it works.
Freud's theory was that when a joke opens a window and all those bats and bogeymen fly out, you get a marvellous feeling of relief and elation. The trouble with Freud is that he never had to play the old Glasgow Empire on a Saturday night after Rangers and Celtic had both lost.
I told the Inland Revenue I didn't owe them a penny because I lived near the seaside
I have kleptomania. But when it gets bad, I take something for it.
All I ask is that my final months be happy ones, and that I be permitted a husband who will see to my proper Christian beheading and burial.
I believe each life has value and that we're on this earth to leave it better than how we found it. I want people to take this to hear and to try as hard as they can to improve their capacity to do so.
Human beings "belong" to some minor comity or enclave of faith at the expense of the clarity and autarkia of their intelligence and conscience, of course. "Belonging" is another way of saying: "capitulating to. "
An intelligent person, looking out of his eyes and hearkening in his ears, with a smile on his face all the time, will get more true education than many another in a life of heroic vigils".