There is, of course, a world of difference between cricket and the movie business ... I suppose doing a love scene with Racquel Welch roughly corresponds to scoring a century be fore lunch.

I don't have a drink problem. But if that was the case and doctors told me I had to stop, I'd like to think that I would be brave enough to drink myself into the grave.

I have two ambitions in life: one is to drink every pub dry, the other is to sleep with every woman on earth.

I'm not a villain, I've never hurt anyone. I'm just a tawdry character who explodes now and again.

Do what you must, but do it well, above all enjoy yourself!

You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stretcher.

I have made many serious statements - I just can't remember any of them. I guess they mustn't have been very important.

I do think a carpenter needs a good hammer to bang in the nail.

If the money's right, I'll do a film.

At the New York Athletic Club they serve amazing food. People go there, get healthy, and then eat themselves to death - which is, I suppose, the right way to do it.

I like the effect drink has on me. What's the point of staying sober?

What I've learned in the last few years is that I am merely a storyteller.

Conscience is ... the God dwelling in us.

When our purpose becomes avoidance, our life becomes a void.

I'm perfectly proud of the work I did, looking back at it. I know I've had a bit of a revision since my 'Big Finish' stories came out.

Every form of life is sacred. It is not possible to have an activity that is not sacred...Coming to see everything as sacred and honouring everything is spiritual development.

War some people glamorise war and glorify war. It's not nice, from whatever point of view you come from.

The abundance, the solidity, and the splendor of the results already achieved by science are well fitted to inspire us with a cheerful confidence in the soundness of its method.

You know, my children go to a local, local catholic school just down the road.

Not reading a beautiful book again because you've already read it, that is, as if you were not visiting a dear friend again because you know him already.

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.