If you want to be happy for a short time, get drunk happy for a long time, fall in love; happy forever, take up gardening.

I read 'Crime and Punishment' years ago and don't recall the details of it, but I do retain a strong sense of the creeping paranoia and panic.

About every four years, someone says to me, "I've got a friend who looks exactly like you." What can you say to this?

The moon puts on an elegant show, different every time in shape, colour and nuance.

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.

I am 54 and age is slowly writing itself on my face.

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