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.

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.

I don't think people were that interested in what I was doing for the most of the 1990s.

I exist as an annexe of the BBC. I'm down the road a bit from the main building, in a little hut.

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.

Israel is the Jimmy Saville of nation states.

People aren't universally heroic.