I do have a regard for the musicality of language that came from BBC sitcoms like 'Fawlty Towers.'

What was alien was being ordinary, being humdrum, being trapped into appeasing...having to crush and stifle my opinions, not being allowed to be brilliant, tricking myself into mediocrity.

If you're a drug addict, often you're stealing - I've gotten done for shoplifting a few times.

If your body is 90% water what have you got to drink water all the time for? Why can't you just have some crisps?

It is difficult to feel sympathy for these people. It is difficult to regard some bawdy drunk and see them as sick and powerless. It is difficult to suffer the selfishness of a drug addict who will lie to you and steal from you and forgive them and offer them help. Can there be any other disease that renders its victims so unappealing?

People don't throw your bags out of windows because of lies; they throw them out because of the truth.

I have never voted. Like most people I am utterly disenchanted by politics. Like most people I regard politicians as frauds and liars and the current political system as nothing more than a bureaucratic means for furthering the augmentation and advantages of economic elites.