Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.

Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige (such as the butler, or the man under the bed - but never the husband).

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.

Last night I dreamed of a small consolation enjoyed only by the blind: Nobody knows the trouble I've not seen!

I usually work from the inside out but sometimes in comedy it's fun to work from the outside in.

I'm a fan of, like, the Coen Brothers, with the darker humor in it.

This hiatus coming up I'm looking at a comedy because I need the balance.

There's a lot of different styles of hypnosis. There's conversational hypnosis, which, even though we joke about it, politicians use conversational hypnosis. I've been hired back at home in Ireland by certain politicians to assist them in specific language patterns that will just tip people over into their, you know, into their zone.