I won a scholarship with the Brixton School of Building. I screwed around, not putting in a proper attendance.

The last thing I stole was a box of Coca Cola from a parked truck in Adelaide. I was nice and drunk. It was New Year's Eve. And that was about 28 years ago.

It has been rumoured that I was the brains of the robbery, but that was totally incorrect. I've been described as the tea boy, which is also incorrect.

There has been so much rubbish written up in the papers over the years.

Banks' beer. There's nothing like it! To Brazil. And to Barbados justice.

I used to have a list of things from my school buddies of what kind of art material they wanted. I'd go up to the West End of London and spend the whole day knocking stuff off.

I am no longer a criminal. I gave up that practice years ago.

One report said that since my time on the run I've had 2,500 girlfriends. I mean, you have got to realize I've been on the run for more than 30 years. I have got to have had more than that.

I am not a perfect man who has led a faultless life.

For more than 13,000 days on the run, my life was a soap opera.

I don't have any intentions to return to England. I would go back if I could return as a free person. I don't want to return to prison.

The way of words, of knowing and loving words, is a way to the essence of things, and to the essence of knowing.

As one gets older one discovers everything is going to be exactly the same with different hats on.

I don't just want my books to be about the '30s and '40s. I want them to read as if they had been written then. I think of them as '40s novels, written in the conservative narrative past.

Thailand's economic development was driven by educational expansion. That has been a very dramatic factor, and South Asia had been pretty miserable in not learning from that experience.

I was playing once with the King of Samoa. I asked him what his handicap was. "Six wives," he said.

I believe that Donald Trump is someone who is not fully understood for how compassionate and what a great boss he is to women.

Women are like dreams, they are never the way you would like to have them.

Sometimes love worked out, but more often it failed

I created a production company. Right now I am so happy in my work.

I'm kind of shy and quiet. But I'm only shy in my personal life. If I'm working, somehow I'm not and it goes away.