I am happy being based in Leeds, I feel settled.

Working is a big part of me and my life and I wasn't happy to stay at home - I'm a workaholic.

I'm still a massive fan of shoes.

I'm not as much a fan of fashion as I used to be.

I have my style and I stick to it.

knowledge is conventionally viewed as belief plus a bunch of credentials

Fear only what you lost from not sharing

Fashion exerts more power in science than it does on the shape of hats.

An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left, Soft Left, Hard Right, Soft Right and Centre. I am not listed. I should probably come under Soft Centre.

Will not collect a ransom in exchange for not crashing the American economy.

I had not spent a ton of time around animals as a kid.

It's just a matter of time before we have a cyber Pearl Harbor.

Art is both creation and recreation. Of the two ideas, I think art as recreation or as sheer play of the human spirit is more important.

Swimming is fun. It's a lot funner than golf.

The joy of poetry is that it will wait for you. Novels don't wait for you. Characters change. But poetry will wait. I think it's the greatest art.