The monarchy is finished. It was finished a while ago, but they're still making the corpses dance.

Yes - I am usually overweight. I have had to be interested in diet because of being diabetic for 30 years and having kidney failure.

Love is the only thing that keeps me sane.

I'm spectacularly disorganised. I wrote my latest book in seven different notebooks scattered throughout my house.

8.45 a.m. My mother is in the hospital grounds smoking a cigarette. She is looking old and haggard. All the debauchery is catching up with her.

The monarchy is finished. It was finished a while ago, but they're still making the corpses dance.

Every time I start a new piece of work, I spend a long while under the duvet thinking I can't do it.