Wow this place is really big isn't it? They must do proper stuff here, like opera and all that...shite.

I've been writing since I was very young, even before I was a teenager. As far as I'm concerned, I am a writer - whether my writing's spoken or written in a blog, paper, book or printed on the side of a submarine.

I’ve always been a big consumer of American journalism over the years and had an interest in the history of it and of the press in America; how it has changed.

The characters can't be wittier than people are in real life. They have to be character witty.

I'll have to look into [Washington] D.C. a bit more. I know it's given over to the administration and the bureaucracy connected to it. It's a super-organism of the American state. But there's also a parallel city in there where normal people live.

Eggs! They're not a food, they belong in no group! They're just farts clothed in substance!

‎What's the weather like? ... It's fierce mild!