They say I'm a one-horse trainer but didn't I make a good job of it?

If Carrie Ford wins the National I'll bare my backside to the wind, and let everyone kick it.

I wouldnt want to be remembered as the guy who contaminated a perfectly legitimate form of protest art with money and celebrities.

A century that began with children having virtually no rights is ending with children having the most powerful legal instrument that not only recognizes but protects their human rights.

It is easy to discover what another has discovered before.

Arson, after all, is an artificial crime...A large number of houses deserve to be burnt.

Ball points belong to their age. They make everyone write alike.

We were a savage little lot, Liverpool kids, not pacifist or vegetarian or anything. But I feel I've gone beyond that, and that it was immature to be so prejudiced and believe in all the stereotypes.

They are just 100 per cent bear, whereas human beings feel we're not 100 per cent human, that we're always letting ourselves down. We're constantly striving towards something, to some fulfilment.

When you've cooked the marrow of the sun and moon, The pearl is so bright you don't worry about poverty.

When you're a screenwriter, it's like being a mechanic. You open the hood of the story, the director is the driver, and he says, "What do you think? It's a little tough."

...language is not the frosting, it's the cake.