To have a very strong opinion all the time is corrosive to a person's intellect. It becomes your default position.

I hate it when I'm reading a comic, and the dialogue looks like stickers stuck on top to explain what's going on. For me the best is when your eye goes in a certain point and moves through the composition and then springs out on the dialogue, or gets confused in the image and then goes to the dialogue for an explanation.

If you went for a job interview in a Glasgow law firm, they used to ask you what school you went to. And that was a way of finding out what religion you were.

Novelisation doesn't imply the truth. Readers are sophisticated enough to know that.

In the 'Garnethill' trilogy, people always forget that Maureen O'Donnell's dad was a journalist and she did art history at uni and her brother did law, but no-one ever thinks they're middle-class - they're just working class because they speak with accents.

I think the negative traits are what makes us love other human beings, the foibles and the flaws.

My upbringing was middle-class but my parents' families were both working-class so I had this odd combination of working-class background but in a privileged position.