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

He could dismiss several schools of philosophy by shifting slightly in his chair or toting his whisky glass.

When things are going well, I can't write fast enough to keep up with my mind. Writing walks, speech runs and talk flies. Other times, though, it's like fishing.

In the same way, there is some creature gnawing away inside of me, urging me to do things in different ways.

Showing off seemed to me to be a highly valuable and necessary activity when I was 20.

I thought The Office was good, though I didn't think of it as a sitcom, just as a very good programme.

Maybe this is just me, but as time goes by, I'm more bewildered by modernity. It gets more unfathomable with every passing year.