Many a man has decided to stay alive not because of the will to live but because of the determination not to give assorted surviving bastards the satisfaction of his death.

I never felt so much at home as I do in New York. I must be a devil.

There's no bad publicity except an obituary.

The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.

It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.

Message? What the hell do you think I am, a bloody postman?

I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.