No one wants to know how clever you are. They don't want an insight into your mind, thrilling as it might be. They want an insight into their own.

Find the extraordinary inside the ordinary.

I was born too late for steam trains and a lazy eye meant I'd never be an astronaut.

I am really interested in eccentric minds. It's rather like being fascinated by how cars work. It's really boring if your car works all the time. But as soon as something happens, you get the bonnet up. If someone has an abnormal or dysfunctional state of mind, you get the bonnet up.

For me, disability is a way of getting some extremity, some kind of very difficult situation, that throws an interesting light on people.

The word "metaphor" means carrying something from one place to another . . . and it is when you describe something by using a word for something that it isn't. This means that the word "metaphor" is a metaphor. I think it should be called a lie because a pig is not like a day and people people do not have skeletons in their cupboards. And when I try and make a picture of the phrase in my head it just confuses me because imagining and apple in someone's eye doesn't have anything to do with liking someone a lot and it makes you forget what the person was talking about.

I've come to realize that most good ideas are precisely the ones you can't describe.