I'm terrified to get married. I'm not getting married till my gay friends can.

Most of the people who write to me are really clever, really engaged. They just want to say that they have read my book and liked it.

Journalism is a Darwinian process.

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

I think graphic novels are closer to prose than film, which is a really different form.

I'd read so much right-wing crime fiction where they find the evidence and shoot the bad guy - I thought there must be another approach.

We don't really go in for big family dinners, but Scottish people are famously confrontational. It's a cultural thing, so maybe we don't need to have them to clear the air. Also, traditional family food isn't as nice here so there's no payoff for traveling hundreds of miles.