Spike Milligan

"Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy."

"My Father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic."

"The experience of being in the Army changed my whole life; I never believed that an organization such as ours could ever go to war, leave alone win it. It was, as Yeats remarked of the Easter Rising, 'A terrible beauty.'"

"The lunacy continues and has every chance of becoming a way of life unless we stop it soon. Men are getting so used to wars that the psychiatric wing of the RAMC are planning how to break the news to the men when the war is over."

"When I get depressed, I try to get something for the terrible sadness that comes over me and create something in terms of poetry."