I am the world's worst diabetic.

Love is the only thing that keeps me sane.

I have decided to be a poet. My father said there isn't a suitable career structure for poets and no pensions and other boring things, but I am quite decided.

Adrian Mole's father was so angry that so many pepole got divorced nowadays. HE had been unhappilly married for 30 years, why should everybody else get away?

Now I know I am an intellectual. I saw Malcolm Muggeridge on the television last night, and I understood nearly every word. It all adds up. A bad home, poor diet, not liking punk. I think I will join the library and see what happens.

Barry Kent's father looks like a big ape and has got more hair on the back of his hands than my father has got on his entire head.

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