There's no recovery from alcoholism, it is an incurable disease. And it also is a disease that tells you, you don't have a disease.

When I'm writing, I thoroughly enjoy it. It just goes on.

I failed everything in school. I left when I was 13 because I had no comprehension of what the hell they were talking about up there at the blackboard. I must have that ADD thing. But, listening to people I thought, that's wonderful to be able to tell a story.

I wonder what I can do about war. Is it the destiny of human kind to eventually wipe ourselves out with these weapons of mass destruction? Are we stupid to think that we can control them?

They don't allow a dying on the highway. No Passing. They give you a ticket if you die on the highway.

When an English man speaks well, for example now, and this is another way of putting us down, they say he's "eloquent" you see. "Oh, eloquent chap they are!" An Irish person speak well, they say, "Ah, you have the gift of the gab." "Ah, you kissed the blarney stone." You see, all of this putting us down.

If you look up the word "gab" in the dictionary, it's insignificant of importance, of no substance. That's what gab is.