I am not an Englishman, I was never an Englishman, and I don't ever want to be one. I am a Scotsman! I was a Scotsman and I will always be one.

I don't know anything about baseball.

The Irish seem to have more fire about them than the Scots.

You write your first draft with your heart and you re-write with your head. The first key to writing is to write, not to think.

After I began to make some money, my brain-damaged accountant put me in one business after another that went bad. The only one that panned out was a small bank, an old Scottish firm with London offices in Pall Mall. I was a director. We sold out to a larger bank. That was the only successful venture I've had, apart from acting.

My boy, we are pilgrims in an unholy land.

I never trashed a hotel room or did drugs.