I don't think I'd ever get thin, but I don't see why I should necessarily think that I couldn't You can't live your life for your routines.

You can't do comedy with a beard.

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.'

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

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.

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

I always thought communism was crap, really.