Dreaming Was Only Nice While It Lasted.

If You're From Dublin, For Example, Chances Are You Live With Your Family, If You're Lucky Enough To, Right Up To The Mid-20s. And Most Of The People I Know, When They Finally Sort Of Set Off On Their Own, They Don't Stray All That Far.

I Tend To Plan As I Write. And I Want To Leave Myself Open And The Character Open To Keep On Going Until It Seems To Be The Time To Stop.

I'm Not Recognised That Much. I'm Just A Bald Man In Glasses And There's A Rash Of Them In Dublin. It'd Be Different If I Had A Mohican.

If There Is A Heaven, Jane Austen Is Sitting In A Small Room With Mother Teresa And Princess Diana, Listening To Duran Duran, Forever. If There's A Hell, She's Standing.

Most Working Days I Can Be At My Desk For Nine Hours A Day.