Never envy a man his lady. Behind it all lays a living hell.

Understand me. I’m not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension and I do not have time for things that have no soul.

The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.

Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?

People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.

Find what you love and let it kill you.

If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. Any other form of existence will be yet another dull book in the library of life.

Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.

Sometimes I feel as if we are all trapped in a movie. We know our lines, where to walk, how to act, only there is no camera. Yet, we can't break out of the movie. And it's a bad one.

You have to die a few times before you can really live.

I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn't a nightmare.

They say actions speak louder than words, but in some cases, words hurt a lot more than actions ever could.

Let us have wine and woman mirth and laughter. Sermons and soda-water the day after.

The good lawyer is the great salesman.

I'm a massive fan of David Lynch and 'Twin Peaks.'

Every great genius has an admixture of madness.

I mean, I do believe that when you walk on the stage, or onto the screen, that's your character - not you. So it's an interesting challenge, an interesting line to walk.

Do not look at the faces in the illustrated papers. Look at the faces in the street.

I'm crazy about Dublin. If you went back 3,000 years in my ancestry you wouldn't find a drop of Irish blood in the veins, but I love the place.

A soul, therefore, when deprived of the Word of God, is given up unarmed to the devil for destruction

I really enjoy doing both, but I didn't write nonfiction until 1994.