When In Doubt, Resort To Animation.

I Got My First Lifetime Achievement Award Years Ago, And I Was Very Excited, But Then I Got A Sense Of: Well, Can One Get A Second Lifetime Award?

It Was A Strange Feeling Going Into A Church I Did Not Know For A Service That I Did Not Really Believe In, But Once Inside I Couldn't Help A Feeling Of Warmth And Security. Outside There Were Wars And Road Accidents And Murders, Striptease Clubs And Battered Babies And Frayed Tempers And Unhappy Marriages And People Contemplating Suicide And Bad Jokes, But Once In St. Martin's There Was Peace. Surely People Go To Church Not To Involve Themselves In The World's Problems But To Escape From Them.

I Wanted To Be An Explorer, But Gradually Found The World Had Been Explored And That There Was Nowhere Left, Really. Once They Climbed Everest In 1953, When I Was 10 Years Old, I Thought, 'well, That's Pretty Much It Now.' But The Idea Of Travelling And Exploring And Adventure Was Very Strong.

I Mistrust Total Competence. I've Always Felt Life Is A Series Of Small Disasters We Try To Get Through.

You Don't Ask People About The Immigration Policies Of The U.k. Or Their Country's Agricultural Policy. Instead, You Talk To Them About The Meal They're Eating Or Their Family, And From That You Get The Sense Of Another Human Being, Someone We Can All Relate To.