I Like To Learn About Things.

If You Have A Certain Wildness Of Spirit, A Cabinet Maker's Workshop Is Not The Place To Express It.

To People Who Don't Know Me I'm Defined By A Number Of Things That People Know About Me That Are Entirely Untrue.

I'm Woefully One-track-minded.

I Suppose I Have A Highly Developed Capacity For Self-delusion, So It's No Problem For Me To Believe That I'm Somebody Else.

One Of The Great Privileges Of Having Grown Up In A Middle-class Literary English Household, But Having Gone To School In The Front Lines In Southeast London, Was That I Became Half-street-urchin And Half-good-boy At Home. I Knew That Dichotomy Was Possible.