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.

Israel is the Jimmy Saville of nation states.

People aren't universally heroic.

You can't do comedy with a beard.

People used to think I was just a shouty comic but I was doing stuff about Sartre.

If someone starts agreeing with me, I don't like it. Out of pique, I become something else.

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