I remember queuing around the block in Sheffield when I was growing up. At that time, going to the cinema was really something special - there was something about the style of the real thing that is immeasurable nicer than multiplexes.

'Nice' means nothing. Is it someone who doesn't swear and shout? I swear and shout. 'Nice' sounds ineffectual.

Once the travel bug bites, there is no known antidote.

Listen -- strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.

I saw novelists as being admirable people and I thought... I thought... maybe, one day, I could be one of them.

You can't get a suit of armour and a rubber chicken just like that. You have to plan ahead.

I'm aware that, if you feel down, it can be strangely unrelated to circumstances around you. That's just the way life is.