I'm Irish. I think about death all the time.

I began to think that the finest modern writer was the screen actor. This was in the spirit of the Fifties where a very antiliterary literature was emerging - Kenneth Patchen and others. I kind of believed what Nietzsche said, that nothing not written in your blood is worth reading; it's just more pollution of the airwaves.

I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person.

I am in an age group where it is rude to discuss money, and now it is all anyone cares about.

I'll tell you one thing: Don't ever give anybody your best advice, because they're not going to follow it.

I am a person who is trained to look other people in the eye.

I've always understood money; it's not a big mystical thing to me.