Michael Palin

You can't get a suit of armour and a rubber chicken just like that. You have to plan ahead.

Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life.

I am very cautious of people who are absolutely right, especially when they are vehemently so.

Listen -- strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.

NOBODY EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION!

Armageddon is not around the corner. This is only what the people of violence want us to believe. The complexity and diversity of the world is the hope for the future.

Night falls over Machu Picchu to the sound of Abba's 'Dancing Queen'

As I work in the afternoon on committing to paper some of my morning's thoughts, I find myself just about to close on the knotty question of whether or not I believe in God. In fact I am about to type, 'I do not believe in God', when the sky goes black as ink, there is a thunderclap and a huge crash of thunder and a downpour of epic proportions. I never do complete the sentence.

I enjoy writing, I enjoy my house, my family and, more than anything I enjoy the feeling of seeing each day used to the full to actually produce something. The end.