Son, we live in a world that has walls and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who's gonna do it? You!?

One of my school friends' parents owned a minigolf course, and a bunch of us kids would play there all day in the summer. Two-under deuces was a good score.

I don't have any plugs or tucks but people do what they want. I look at it as mutilation.

I come from the Lynchs of Sligo. You know, I went there, but I looked in the phone book and there are nine million Lynches in Sligo.

I respect the social graces enormously. How to pass the food. Don't yell from one room to another. Don't go through a closed door without a knock. Open the doors for the ladies. All these millions of simple household behaviors make for a better life. We can't live in constant rebellion against our parents - it's just silly. I'm very well mannered. It's not an abstract thing. It's a shared language of expectations.

I think the Greeks invented sports as an antidote to philosophy.

Through all permutations and youthful poetry, I came to believe that the film actor was the great "literateur" of his time.