You can't do comedy with a beard.

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.

People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.

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

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.

Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, may have had his charms, but he really couldn't be considered hip.

My name is Alexei Yuri Gagarin Siege of Stalingrad Glorious Five Year Plan Sputnik Tractor Moscow Dynamo Back Four Balowski. Me Dad was a bit of a Communist, know what I mean?