If you're an economist and you're asked to predict what something is going to be like 50 years from now? It's going to be guesswork.

I formed a new group called Alcoholics-Unanimous. If you don't feel like a drink, you ring another member and he comes over to persuade you.

Someone left the cake out in the rain. I don't think that I can take it, cause it took so long to bake it, and I'll never have that recipe again. Oh, no.

Probably the most distinctive characteristic of the successful politician is selective cowardice.

I think that the British government has long been on the record saying global warming is a very serious issue and we need to do something about it. I think what they did was they took their own economic experts and they said, "This time, let's try to put together a document that will really convince the rest of the world of a position that we've been holding for a while."

I turned Hamlet down because it was going to take up too much of my drinking time.

I swim in a pool of my own neurosis. I carry love, grief deeply, like an Irishman.