Всъщност самоиронията с право се приема за здравословна, а и всички предпочитаме хората, които не се вземат прекалено на сериозно. - John Cleese

When you get to my age, and I'm 66 now, you realize that the world is a madhouse and that most people are operating in fantasy anyway. So once you realise that, it doesn't bother you much.

When I was teaching, the headmaster told me "You know, the sad thing about true stupidity is that you can do absolutely nothing about it."

New Yorkers weren’t rude so much as tense. If I went into a tobacconist and started with my public school patter, “I’m so sorry to bother you but I’d rather care to buy some cigarettes, so if you’d be so good as to allow me to intrude upon your time …,” they’d shout “Whaddyawant?” as though you’d insulted them. But if you strode into the store, fixed them with a look of pure hatred and hissed the word “Larks!,” they’d smile and chat and tell you why they’d just left their wife.