My parents were secular. I am an atheist.
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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 there are vested interests telling us not to bother.
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My parents were secular. I am an atheist.
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Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar. You have to hold it, you have to read it.
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I did not vote Labour because they’ve heard of Oasis and nobody is going to vote Tory because William Hague has got a baseball cap.
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Comedy will always be central to what I do, it’s just an instinct for me, but I am a writer and always have been.
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I exercise hard and the reason I do is so that I can earn the things I like to consume.
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And roast beef and Yorkshire pudding is my personal signature dish.
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The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value.
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People who get through life dependent on other people’s possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count.
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I’m lucky because the strongest emotion I have ever felt is being in love, and that definitely informs my writing.
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I see dull people as projects … to be reformed
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Artists don’t create society, they reflect it
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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 is only a taxi.
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I don’t consider myself Jewish. I am half-Jewish by race but not through my mother.
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This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.
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