That's the terrible part. I swear to God I'm a madman.

If you do something too good, then, after a while, if you don't watch it, you start showing off. And then you're not as good any more.

Each of his phrases was rather like a little ancient island, inundated by a miniature sea of whiskey.

It always smelled like it was raining outside, even if it wasn't, and you were in the only nice, dry, cosy place in the world.

It’s history. It’s poetry.

If you're not in the mood, you can't do that stuff right.

The thing with kids is, if they want to grab for the gold ring, you have to let them do it, and not say anything. If they fall off, they fall off, but it's bad if you say anything.