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.

You can't do comedy with a beard.

I feel sorry for many politicians we expect them to be completely consistent and moralised when we're not.

I always thought communism was crap, really.

Israel is the Jimmy Saville of nation states.

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

But as in all cults, what's central to the Communist Party is the belief system and the elimination of nuance. From there you're very slowly led down the road to fanaticism and mass murder.