How did it make you feel?

I think UKIP [ UK Independence Party] and the BNP [British National Party] are very, very English concerns. If they gather strength they're going to add to this schism between Scotland and England.

His eyes are wild, psychotic slits that bat-dance in your soul looking for good things to crush or bad elements to identify with.

It was quite life-affirming, for me, that I felt hat kind of pity for [Margaret Thatcher], because I didn't think I ever would.

Writing is about culture and should be about everything. That's what makes it what it is.

I don't think that the Scots are happy to drift into Britain becoming the poorest of the poor, sub-American 51st state.

Just lock myself in a room, stop answering emails, stop answering the phone and I come out with something.