Reading the play at home, however fulfilling, can never be the vivacious experience that Shakespeare intended.

I find it hilarious that there are academics who try to analyse chemical changes in the brains of students while exposing them to gags.

Global warming, the ongoing destruction of the planet, Third World debt, the uselessness of the railways, the takeover by the corporations, the scary George Bush person: all these things are important and should be animating me into outrage. Yet somehow they do not.

I couldn't really see the point of having lunch unless it started at 1:00 and ended a week later in Monte Carlo.

I'm an armchair kind of guy, especially when it's raining, which it always is and always will be.

After you've read a novel, you only retain a vague memory of its contents. You remember the atmosphere, the odd image or phrase or vivid cameo.

I like doing things I haven't learnt about yet. I've always been interested in art, and I love doing art.