I won't be going to any New Year's Eve parties because I think they're naff. No one over the age of 15 should bother going to parties.

It seems that one moment I was this little kid only caring about animals and flowers and stuff, and then the next minute I was this raging stew of hormones. I don't know if you've ever been a raging stew of anything, but I wouldn't particularly recommend it.

Graham Greene famously said that all writers need a chip of ice in their heart; Cusk can come across as the most beautiful ice palace of stalactites and stalagmites, and some people find her company, albeit by proxy, about as inviting as a long weekend in a walk-in frigidaire.

I have always voted Labour and I always will. I have got to have one stupid, bovine part of me and that's the part that votes Labour.

I just have a real problem with people who seek to portray fatness or thinness as moral concepts.

Lots of women love to accuse men of being immature when the fellow in question displays a reluctance to "commit"...

Punk was over in two years. That was the only damn good thing about it.