New technology is useful, but it's inefficient and ugly; it knows it'll be obsolete by lunchtime tomorrow, so it has no incentive to be anything else

I try and do 2,500 words a day, every day of the year

Everything is out there if you know how to find it, and have the patience. I don't and haven't, but that's my problem

There's all sorts of things I was always meaning to get around to - learning to play the flute, calculating the square root of nought, going mad - but I just didn't have the time.

I don't read the Sunday papers; or the dailies, either

Telling lies is a bit like tiling bathrooms - if you don't know how to do it properly, it's best not to try.

Lawyers are predators in grey worsted