I always knew I wanted it to be illustrated.

As a child I assumed that when I reached adulthood, I would have grown-up thoughts.

I'm so old that when I started keeping a diary they were in actual books, and I think that's one the reasons that I've never written about sex. Because early on you had to worry that someone was going to find your diary, so it's bad enough to be writing like Joan Didion, but writing like Joan Didion about sex acts you'd performed with somebody you had known for 20 minutes, that's a bit worse. So I would write in my diary, "I met J. and we had sex five times last night." But I would never write about what we did.

All of a sudden, when you're exposed to a large audience, they think you just started writing that day, but I started years before. I look back at things I wrote then and I'm so embarrassed - the writing seems so blocky and choppy to me and I wouldn't have wanted success any sooner because the writing was even worse.

Jeremy, Good luck on your first marriage.

Sometimes I say to myself, 'Oh, I wish I could win a Tony Award', although I'm not that bothered.

A zoo is a good place to make a spectacle of yourself, as the people around you have creepier, more photogenic things to look at.