Always a bridesmaid never a bride my foot!

If you do not surrender, I shall be forced to shoot you through the head with a rather large bullet.

For me, life has either been a wake or a wedding.

I'm not working-class: I come from the criminal classes.

When my father would come home from the track after a good day, the whole room would light up; it was fairyland. But when he lost, it was black. In our house, it was always either a wake ... or a wedding.

What I like is bottomless flattery.

I do not choose to be a common man…it is my right to be uncommon—if I can…I seek opportunity—not security…I want to take the calculated risk; to dream and to build, to fail and to succeed… to refuse to barter incentive for a dole… I prefer the challenges of life to the guaranteed existence, the thrill of fulfillment to the stale calm of utopias….