You see? I know where every single book used to be in the library. She pointed to the shelf opposite. Over there was Catch-22, which was a hugely popular fishing book and one of a series, I believe.

I have the death sentence in seven genres.

It took me ten years and seven books to bag an agent - it took me that long to start writing good.

Anything devised by man has bureaucracy, corrpution and error hardwired at inception.

There are a lot of idiots in this country, and they deserve representation as much as the next man.

Growth purely for its own sake is the philosophy of cancer.

The inspiration comes from everywhere, from what I grew up with. There's so much silliness and nonsense in the world that we regard as normal working procedure. The satirical point of the view may be to counterpoint that. The way we look at classics has been hijacked by the intelligentsia - Shakespeare is highbrow and seen as something clever people do, which isn't right at all. I basically pull inspiration from everywhere.