If I won the lottery I'd start a charity that helped little family hardware stores, cobblers and fruit shops open in city centres.

Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, may have had his charms, but he really couldn't be considered hip.

Everyone I used to work with is still alive and can afford expensive lawyers.

Most of my friends are women - I quite fancied being a woman in a way.

If you travel to the States... they have a lot of different words than like what we use. For instance: they say 'elevator', we say 'lift'; they say 'drapes', we say 'curtains'; they say 'president', we say 'seriously deranged git.'

However, my problems with my memory are further complicated by the fact that while I don't have any recollection of things I have actually done, I have very vivid recollections of loads of things that I haven't done.

I liked 35 and in both my novels that is the age of the lead characters. I tried making them my age but they just seemed to keep moaning about stuff.