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

People aren't universally heroic.

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

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

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.

Honestly, sometimes I get really fed up of my subconscious - it's like it's got a mind of its own.

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.