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.

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.

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

I like the south of Spain, notably for the Moorish influence and the weather.

I think that my ideas of the world are that it's random and cruel but kind of quite comical really, and therefore the humour, in a sense, springs from that.

It always seemed to be a constant that my parents were political.

I have a lot of nice Italian winter clothes that make me look like a sophisticated Lebanese professor, so my friend Robert and I go around pretending to be experts in Arabic politics. It doesn't work in the summer though. I don't have the right clothes.