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

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

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.

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

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.

Acting is the most demanding, painful job in the world.

An uninspiring canvas becomes a glamorous masterpiece when it is reattributed to a better-known artist.