The only thing I've ever been interested in teaching anyone in life is cricket.

I have no memories I'm prepared to share with you.

It's my job, it's what I do, it's what I'm on earth to do and it's who I am.

I'm a working stiff, baby, just like everybody else.

If you can't do something willingly and joyfully, then don't do it.

For me, life has either been a wake or a wedding.

When I work with young people, I grab energy from them by the hands.

What I like is bottomless flattery.

There's a remedy for everything except death.

Being sober for so many years is getting interesting.

Booze is the most outrageous of drugs which is why I chose it.

If you cannot say what you mean, your majesty, you will never mean what you say and a gentleman should always mean what he says.

And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

A victory? What have we won? We've won a rock in the middle of a wasteland, on the shores of a poisoned sea.

I can't stand light. I hate weather. My idea of heaven is moving from one smoke-filled room to another.

Marriage is forever. It's like cement.

I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony.

George Eliot is my only steady girlfriend. We go to bed together every night.

The only exercise I take is walking behind the coffins of friends who took exercise.