Writing is one of those jobs that everyone has an opinion on. I don't think this is a bad thing.

I think London is a bit sad, and I find it a bit overwhelming. There's a lot of quite unhappy people, and it's very goal-driven.

I am trying to write a play that is big and I feel represents me - that's my big ambition.

I'm a constant idiot in conversation - I always seem to sound either smug or stupid. Writing plays was a way of winning the conversation by controlling the conversation.

Look at anyone's bookcase at home, no matter how modest, and you're going to find a book that contains wisdom or ideas or a language that's at least a thousand years old. And the idea that humans have created a mechanism to time travel, to hurl ideas into the future, it sort of bookends. Books are a time machine.

Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.

Obviously it's great to train at home and not have to travel and stay in the same time zone. That's always great.

Golf is growing, and there are more good young players, but you don't see them going abroad. It's so expensive to travel.