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

Sometimes I rant, in a comical way, about how the gods give with one hand and take with the other.

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

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.

There's only one thing more boring than listening to other people's dreams, and that's listening to their problems.

I have decided to keep a full journal, in the hope that my life will perhaps seem more interesting when it is written down.

It's no surprise to me that intellectuals commit suicide, go mad or die from drink. We feel things more than other people. We know the world is rotten and that chins are ruined by spots.