A mind is a terrible thing. All this evolution nonsense is making me feel like a complete APE!

I drew the last image ever of Opus at midnight while Puccini was playing and I got rather stupid. Thirty years. A bit like saying goodbye to a child - which is ironic because I was never, never sentimental about him as many of his fans were.

Dear Lord, I've been asked, nay commanded, to thank Thee for the Christmas turkey before us... a turkey which was no doubt a lively, intelligent bird... a social being... capable of actual affection... nuzzling its young with almost human- like compassion. Anyway, it's dead and we're gonna eat it. Please give our respects to its family.

A mind is a terrible thing. All this evolution nonsense is making me feel like a complete APE!

Steve Dallas...a frat-boy lawyer who I knew in school. He's never written me. I suspect he was shot by an annoyed girlfriend, which has saved me many legal fees.

'Harry Potter' shouldn't be children's first experience with suspense and plot turns.

I grew up in Los Angeles and always wished I'd spent a childhood in a far different place.