I find it dull when my heart meets my mind

I am quite competitive. In stupid things like card games.

I'm incredibly neurotic and a control freak. I like the thought that if there's going to be anyone to blame it's going to be me.

I thought ‘I wonder what will happen if I try and root myself somewhere?‘ Look back over the past eight years.

I've been quite fascinated by the relative insignificance of human existence, the shortness of life. We might as well be a letter in a word in a sentence on a page in a book in a library in a city in one country in this enormous universe! And that kind of fear and insignificance has kept me awake at night.

I'm a lot more observational than personal in my writing. My writing is mostly a lot of questions without answers.

I get up, go and get a coffee, and go do the crossword - I'm loyal to one particular paper, the 'Guardian' - and that's my idea of a perfect morning.