It is more interesting to be compared to someone famous, because it lets you gauge what perceptions people have about your appearance.

It is more interesting to be compared to someone famous, because it lets you gauge what perceptions people have about your appearance.

Don Quixote's 'Delusions' is an excellent read - far better than my own forthcoming travel book, 'Walking Backwards Across Tuscany.'

The history of the relationship between comedy and swimming is short indeed. Of course it is always funny when someone falls into water, but that's about it.

My sister-in-law believes that few narratives are so tightly constructed that you can't skip boring bits and still keep abreast of what's going on.

If you want to write something of length, however modern and radical, you must live the life of an elderly gentleman of the 1950s.

Comedy ages quicker than tragedy, to the extent that we can't know if the 10 commandments may originally have been 10 hilarious one-liners.