In England, we have such good manners that if someone says something impolite, the police will get involved.

The priority of any addict is to anaesthetise the pain of living to ease the passage of day with some purchased relief.

This is no time for drinking a mug of water - which you would do nowhere else in the world. A mug of water! You just don't drink water from mugs, do ya? Except on the telly. Water out of a mug! Should be a hot drink... mug of water.

Imagine the wisdom to be passed down from the classical Buddhist texts.

Murderers! Stop murdering. Everyone will die eventually. Just sit down and be patient.

I've always had this impulse to be destructive.

I didn't cross the line, you drew it in after I traversed it.