I can't stand light. I hate weather. My idea of heaven is moving from one smoke-filled room to another.

My own favorite is something called Rogue Male.

Irish women are always carrying water on their heads, and always carrying their husbands home from pubs. Such things are the greatest posture-builders in the world.

And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

I'm a working stiff, baby, just like everybody else.

It's very inconvenient because every time I finish, let's say, a chapter of a book, I think I'm going to ring Richard and then realize: Oh, Christ, I've buried him. I buried him last year.

In the theater you can chain a blue-assed baboon in the stalls and with a good script, good actors, and a good set you'd have what is called a production. With the cinema someone has to know about lenses and fine things. I have no time for the "auteur de cinema." To me, it's meaningless.