When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought you can't teach poetry. This is ridiculous.
It's both funny and sad which seem to me to be the two basic ingredients of good comedy.
We try to... we are I suppose to a certain extent all affected and erm that...
It would be a sad day if we British stopped being cynical, but you...
I have this absurd syndrome where I get these out-of-the-blue, pathetic...
It’s just rubbish.