I don't have lungs anymore! Just two spare bags that flew in under a bridge one day.

Maybe this is just me, but as time goes by, I'm more bewildered by modernity. It gets more unfathomable with every passing year.

It should not be an act of social disobedience to light a cigarette. Unless you're actually a doctor working at an incubator.

I would never really analyse what I do. I leave that to other people - I'm not a critic. I just want to get on with whatever I have in hand, you know? Just try to make the best job of the available material.

You're supposed to eat the cows. They're great big lumbering stupid things - they'd be everywhere if we didn't eat them.

I've lived in the UK for longer than I lived in Ireland. I'm not worried about myself, but it's ridiculous for youngsters.

Paper acts as an eraser on the mind, as soon as you look at what you've written.