I came in on the decline. Phil Elliot was in first, he got his book out, he sold thirteen thousand, I think he got two issues out before I got mine in, this was March '87. He was out in December '86.

And when you look at the Turtle's movie there is something there, definitely something there.

You had to make an appointment to see her. But it was just a crazy spectacle, people filing past.

It's business, selling comics, you work out what sells and you don't want to muck about with it too much.

I'm thinking to myself, I just love doing the art, it takes me a morning to do.

He would still see it as his duty to shut up and get on with it, not cause any trouble. In our own time we've made a hero of the rebel, and it's more heroic to speak up.

I dont want to write, Id rather draw.

I think in the corridors of power these dangerous kinds of orders are issued in a much more vague way, passed down two or three levels of command before they're given to the assassin.

I remember having an argument with Alan, I said the Queen's not just going to call the guy up and send him out to do it. And Alan says, well, how would a monarch give orders to her assassin.

Work with "what is" rather than "what if" and you will move towards "what can be.

These were the facts. Facts were important. They separated fiction from reality, the tawdry world of Mike Longshott from the concrete spaces of Joe's world.

I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.

It seems to me that I am more to the Left than you, Mr Stalin

Once you get to the plate, you have two options: You either quit, or you try to hit the ball.

You can do anything you put your heart, mind and soul into. Far more than you can imagine. Be fearless. Do it.

Labour leaders lead us all, though we know they bleed us all. Cheer our new Decline and Fall, Gibbon might have dreamed it all.

Good people aren't good because they never cause harm to others. They're good because they treat others the best way they know how, with the understanding that they have.

I don't want to sound pretentious, but I love art, I like to go to museums, and I like to read books.

Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.