To get enough to eat was regarded as an achievement. To get drunk was a victory.

There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.

I wish I'd been a mixed infant.

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

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

The English and Americans dislike only some Irish--the same Irish that the Irish themselves detest, Irish writers--the ones that think.

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