I also believe in cigarettes, cholesterol, alcohol, carbon monoxide, masturbation, the Arts Council, nuclear weapons, the Daily Telegraph, and not properly labeling fatal poisons, but above all else, most of all, I believe in the one thing that can come out of people's mouths: vomit.

Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.

The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they've been in.

I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.

I haven't had a single moment of terror since they told me [I was dying]. My only regret is to die four pages too soon. If I can finish, then I'm quite happy to go.

Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures.

I was given talent, and if you are given it, it is your obligation to use it.