I am an alcoholic, as I said. And it is however we call it, a disease. That's an explanation, but not an excuse.

To lose one parent is a tragedy, to lose both is utter carelessness.

My purpose in life always has been to avoid work. And I hear these people saying, "I work hard and I pay my taxes." Well, you're an asshole.

To be Irish today is the abandonment of shame and the younger people are moving it out and they're moving the fear away. They're not afraid, they're adventurous.

I'm an alcoholic, recovering. And I used to smoke cigarettes, and I was a philanderer and I, wouldn't call myself good.

The alcoholism got me and I ruined my first marriage with drinking and the lying and the deceit and infidelity, and all of that. The whole bloody thing.

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