It may be that The Great Gatsby is as perfect, word for word, just in terms of English; but Ulysses is deeper, richer, wider – and is comic, whereas The Great Gatsby is a tragic novel. And I think all great art is comic art.(video)

It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.

Personally, I'd never seen a graphic novel. I knew they existed because friends of mine like Jonathan Ross collect them and some very literate and intelligent people really rate the graphic novel as a form.

Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word's full octave.

When you've seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.