All intellectual tendencies are corrupted when they consort with power.

I was a big pothead for a short period. That was what ticked me off that I shouldn't go near hard drugs, actually, because I would consume the stuff as if it was going out of style and it rapidly occurred to me that if I ever tried a hard drug, the same thing would happen, so I never did.

The thing about making a documentary in Las Vegas is there isn't much to film apart from other people making documentaries about Las Vegas.

One of the virtues of the NHS... it doesn't worry you about money at the moment when you're least capable of doing anything about it.

As a work of art, it reminds me of a long conversation between two drunks

Sick of being a prisoner of my childhood, I want to put it behind me.

I'm certainly not a linguist. I learned what languages I could learn in order to read books and I can't really speak them. I couldn't have stayed out of jail in most of them.