First off, I have to mention what is undoubtedly the greatest phenomenon of the modern era: All You Can Eat Buffets.

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.

Americans have different ways of saying things. They say 'elevator', we say 'lift'... they say 'President', we say 'stupid psychopathic git.

Most of the Communists I knew were nice people.

I did six series for the BBC and that was enough. I've been writing for ten years, which is more challenging artistically.

If sitcoms were easy to write, there'd be a lot of good ones, and there aren't.

For me, the showbiz memoir is uninteresting - you want to tell people something they don't know about.