Dirk Gently has been a long passion (my career started with Douglas Adams and my stage adaptation of Dirk Gently) .

I've always wanted to write comic books, my earliest memories are of waiting for Dad to come home from work, and, secreted in his lawyer's leather briefcase, would be comics from the store.

Growing up in Malaysia and England, there wasn't an obvious route into the comics world, so my creative energy went into theatre and prose and then movies and TV.

There is more sexy-stuff a coming in this book, though.... This ain't your grandmother's Dirk Gently.

One cannot learn so well as by experiencing it oneself.

Just because the truth is unpopular doesn't mean that it should not be proclaimed.

The dream of capitalism is to co-opt people with higher living standards without redistributing any wealth. Without co-optation, widespread repression is the only guarantor of gross inequality.

Had they [the Tories] been in the wilderness they would have complained of the Ten Commandments. Remark.

Our moods and insights are transitory. This current is a flow of grace moving us to our right livelihood, companions, destiny.

They say that depression is anger you turn on yourself, and I think women do that.

We have very little, so we have nothing to be preoccupied with. The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give. But the less you have, the more free you are.

Angel was the first Irish feature film. Neil's first movie and my first movie.

You must appreciate that love is the last reason for which a man marries.

Ethics must be reintroduced to public service to restore people's faith in government. Without such faith, democracy cannot flourish. Your ambitious agenda is filling a desperate need.