98 Quotes by Robert Webb

Labour is at its best when it remembers its moral fury.

Like most men, I can't say I am thrilled my hair's falling out, but then, if I really cared, I suppose I would wear a wig, get transplants, or start taking special pills, so I am obviously just putting up with it.

Religion is many things, but one of them, surely, is a way for adults to indulge in uncritical hero worship.

My parents' marriage was already shaky when I came along. They split up when I was five, and I didn't see Dad all that often after that - four or five times a year.

My mother died when I was 17, and I moved in with my dad to make a 12-month pig's ear of retaking my A-levels.

I was the youngest of three brothers by five years, so I spent most of my childhood playing alone, being Zorro or some other superhero, doing Lego, watching telly and riding my bike.

I think of myself as naturally idle. The trouble is, the 'nothing' that I do every day is not really nothing. I potter. I muck about with emails, I make coffee, I fiddle with my computer to make sure that the book I haven't started writing is perfectly synced across all platforms and devices.

I think jokes can actually go to places that drama can't.

My childhood was as heavily gendered as any you would find in a working-class household in Lincolnshire.