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“Comedy will always be central to what I do, it's just an instinct for me, but I am a writer and always have been.”

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“[H]e was damned if he was going to water down his arguments simply to satisfy the preference of the mob for dogma and ignorance.”

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My parents were secular. I am an atheist.

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Yes, OK, farty is a silly word. I wish I'd never used it. I'm 34. Perhaps it was a word for my 20s.

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I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.

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