Artists don't create society, they reflect it.

I loved writing 'Two Brothers' more than anything else I have written. It's the first book I've written that I've always known I wanted to write. Hav….

Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar. You have to hold it, you have to read it..

No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even if the thing they are waiting for ….

I don't consider myself Jewish. I am half-Jewish by race but not through my mother..

People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count..

You're mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund.

Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them..

We've all got to look at ourselves, start with yourself, that's all you can do. I believe that we can act responsibly as a group, it's just that ther….

There are lots of things I could have done for the money, but I've made a great living doing the things I want to do..

You didn't wake up, your dreams just changed gear..

Yes, OK, farty is a silly word. I wish I'd never used it. I'm 34. Perhaps it was a word for my 20s..

I think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition - and I have never suffered from it..

And roast beef and Yorkshire pudding is my personal signature dish..

The Germans are a cruel race. Their operas last for six hours and they have no word for fluffy..

Beyond love, beyond unrequited love, perhaps even beyond any other passion known to humanity, deep, deep in the depths of the turgid, clinging, swamp….

The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth..

You think I look like a teletubby?.

Leaders should never, ever try to look cool - that's for dictators.

For the past seventeen years I have been experimenting with lager. I am a lager user and one drug leads to another. If you do lager, as night follows….

I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality..