Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.

Literature is the only access to truth we have on this planet.

How can one not be fond of something that the Daily Mail despises?

A month's salary, deep regret, the telephone number of some foul rehab clinic and my lance was free.

I've never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind.

I think my view is that whenever you project into the future you're never likely to be accurate in the details, or the paraphernalia and style. It's in the spirit of it.

Entry is not equivalent to possession.