Art you can flush down the loo means nothing to me, even were the loo to be selected by Marcel Duchamp

Always trust strangers, it's the people you know that let you down.

I wasn't like other boys. At any rate, I wasn't like my three elder brothers: they excelled at football and they were like other boys, going up to bed each night hugging annuals filled with stories about the glories of Pele and Danny McGrain.

We do not read to pass the time, but to inhabit time.

I grew up in a working-class community. I come from a big family. I knew Donald Trump would win because I knew he is what poor Americans think a rich person looks like. And I knew that Hillary Clinton would annoy voters in their tens of millions, because she basically sucked at communicating with poor people and seemed like a person who'd been powerful and rich for decades. She was a disastrous candidate. I mean, she was up against a psychopath and she still lost. The country's thinking was beyond her, literally.

Traveling alone offers the chance to test the limits of what you think you know about yourself.

Interviewing is not a democratic art.