We brought with hus in the ship a cat, a most amicable cat and greatly loved by us; but he grew to great bulk through the eating of fish.

I heard Rolex makes nice watches.

New York is my Lourdes, where I go for spiritual refreshment... a place where you're least likely to be bitten by a wild goat.

Saigon is hot, full of atmosphere, activity, and commerce.

The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.

It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.

I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse.

I’ve always said that you can live without water for many days, but you can’t live for a second without hope.

Elizabeth Hurley and I had a lot of fun together. She's a very beautiful, confident woman.

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

As a young man I prayed for success. Now I just pray to be worthy of it.

The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.

Don’t measure life against time. Measure life by the milestones you have reached.

Pain is inevitable suffering is optional.

For a few months when I was about 17, I smoked a small cigar because I thought it looked cool and it would get me the girls. It didn't.

I'm a comic nerd. I'm a former serious collector for much of my childhood and early teen years I wanted to draw underground comics.

Without arts programmes there's only reality TV, and reality TV needs the arts to show it what reality is.

It was that depressing time in the early morning where the only people about were milkmen, police officers- and time travellers.

I approximated the Black Friday experience at home by hurling myself into a wall a number of times and then ordering online.

...but somehow the madness around me and the turmoil I carried within myself acted as counterweights, and I survived in the centre.

Never demean yourself by talking back to a critic, never. Write those letters to the editor in your head, but don't put them on paper.