“Some say that Cusk has no sense of humour, but expecting giggles from ...” — Julie Burchill Quote

“Some say that Cusk has no sense of humour, but expecting giggles from this writer would be akin to expecting sonnets from Benny Hill.”

“Surely being a Professional Beauty - let alone an ageing one - is one of the most insecure and doomed careers imaginable.”

“As a precocious teen I dreamed of being Graham Greene. Well, as it turned out, I never wrote a great novel, sadly, and I never converted to Catholicism, happily, but I did do one thing he did. That is, in middle age I moved to a seaside town and got into a right barney with the local powers-that-be.”

“When they asked Jack Benny to do something for the Actor's Orphanage - he shot both his parents and moved in.”

“I've been working a lot with Benny Blanco; he's a producer. And I've been working with Diplo and a bunch of other people. Detail, Charlie Handsome. A variety of people.”

“I have often been told that I have many of the same mannerisms as Jack Benny and certainly Bob Cummings.”