When I was growing up, the exam system didn't allow you to write fiction, so you never did.
The Irish are the niggers of Europe, lads.
I don't work to any commissions. I do what I want to do.
You know people are always putting Ulysses in the top 10 books ever written but I doubt that any of those people were really moved by it.
Sometimes adults seem as though they have cut a chord from being a child.
If there is a heaven, Jane Austen is sitting in a small room with Mother Teresa and Princess Diana, listening to Duran Duran, forever. If there's a hell, she's standing.