[riding on a train]: I can't describe the excitement to someone who doesn't write books except to say it was that incredibly elated feeling you get when you've just met someone with whom you might eventually fall in love. That... that was ... that was the kind of feeling I had getting off the train. As though I'd just met someone wonderful, and we were about to embark on this wonderful affair. That kind of elation, that light-headedness, and the excitement, and so I got back to my flat in Clapping Junction and started writing, and I've now been writing for ten years so it's been a good affair.