Religion has always been the wound, not the bandage.

Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality.

I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.

We should always look back on our own past with a sort of contempt, as long as the tenderness is there - but please let some of the contempt be there.

Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.

That vision of a common culture is now simply a remote wistfulness.

The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they've been in.

A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only goodness that creates. Bad things create. They have their own yeast.

There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of work.

Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures.

Television's Mr. Filth: that's me.

The best blessing that you can give is your beautiful smile.

Elegance is timeless

Napoleon loved only himself, but, unlike Hitler, he hated nobody.

I don't initiate violence, I retaliate.

I never thought I'd play soccer past high school, so to go from that team to actually being most-capped and three World Cups is pretty special.

Didn't want to be a star, wanted just to play guitar in this cockamamie business.

I would describe my work as expressionist. The expressionist point of view is stressing your own feelings about something.

There are different flavors of recession. You can get into some pretty dark scenarios pretty quickly.

I hate nostalgia. Today is always better than yesterday.

I was signed to MGM. I was in Vegas for sixteen weeks at the Sands Hotel.