You cannot over estimate how infantile men are about sex! Men are people that have sex BECAUSE they have a headache... or are on fire, or have been shot in the head, or whatever it is!

I was lucky in the sense that I was never blessed with an overly reflective nature.

What is universal can be surprising. Over time you find the kind of stuff which has people thinking 'That is just something that occurred to me there's something wrong with me', is in fact stuff that is universal.

Shame is one of the greatest aphrodisiacs in the world, anyway, built into religion.

We are both drawn to surreal situations so the writing was a joy.

I feel very very old. My hair hurts. I have buttocks all over my body and I can't even smoke properly any more. I don't have lungs, I just have two poppadoms in here.

I don't go around thinking of myself as a great anything.