I did quite enjoy the days when one went for a beer at one's local in Paris and woke up in Corsica.
Many years ago I sent an old, beloved jacket to a cleaner, the Sycamore Cleaners. It was a leather jacket covered in Guinness and blood and marmalade, one of those jobs... and it came back with a little note pinned to it, and on the note it said, 'It distresses us to return work which is not perfect.' So that will do for me. That can go on my tombstone.
I have no intention of uttering my last words on the stage. Room service and a couple of depraved young women will do me quite nicely for an exit.
There may be honor among thieves, but there's none in politicians.
I will not be an ordinary man, because I have a right to be extraordinary.
The only exercise I take is walking behind the coffins of friends who took exercise.
I do not choose to be a common man…it is my right to be uncommon—if I can…I seek opportunity—not security…I want to take the calculated risk; to dream and to build, to fail and to succeed… to refuse to barter incentive for a dole… I prefer the challenges of life to the guaranteed existence, the thrill of fulfillment to the stale calm of utopias….
If you can't do something willingly and joyfully, then don't do it.
Question: How do you know you're God? Answer: Simple. When I pray to him, I find I'm talking to myself.
There are only two things one has to bear in mind. One has to be credulous - able to believe - and skeptical - able to not believe, because if you are not skeptical, you will believe rubbish. If you are not credulous you will learn nothing and the only way to balance those two is to recognize the mystery of things.
For me, life has either been a wake or a wedding.
George Eliot is my only steady girlfriend. We go to bed together every night.
Everyone praises Sachin Tendulkar. He may be a genius in his own right but in my book, Rahul Dravid is the artist. Dravid's defence tactics, his strokes, his cuts, his grace are truly amazing. I'd like to meet the chap sometime and take my hat off to him.
If you can't do something willingly and joyfully, then don't do it. If you give up drinking, don't go moaning about it; go back on the bottle. Do. As. Thou. Wilt.
And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.
A victory? What have we won? We've won a rock in the middle of a wasteland, on the shores of a poisoned sea.
I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony.
Marriage is forever. It's like cement.
Irish women are always carrying water on their heads, and always carrying their husbands home from pubs. Such things are the greatest posture-builders in the world.
There's a remedy for everything except death.
I can't stand light. I hate weather. My idea of heaven is moving from one smoke-filled room to another.
Not everyone can become a great artist; but a great artist *can* come from *anywhere*.
It was a mistake and I made the mistake because I was conservative and played safe. And that way lies failure." "Must do it... constantly go to the well... constantly try, try, try. Dare. Dare, Dare. Who dares wins.
Booze is the most outrageous of drugs which is why I chose it.
I have no memories I'm prepared to share with you.
