Richard Harris
Marriage is a custom brought about by women who then proceed to live off men and destroy them, completely enveloping the man in a destructive cocoon or eating him away like a poisonous fungus on a tree.Collection: Marriage
There's more fiction in my life than in books, so I don't bother with them.
I often sit back and think, I wish I'd done that, and find out later that I already have.
Jesus is just a word I use to swear with.
Winning the Pulitzer is not that big a deal. I have seen hundreds of plays that have won the prize and you couldn't sit half way through it. The Pulitzer is a common prize that means very little.
Many kids turn to selling drugs. It's not a good career choice, but they see it as a way to get money.
I formed a new group called Alcoholics-Unanimous. If you don't feel like a drink, you ring another member and he comes over to persuade you.Collection: Groups
I swim in a pool of my own neurosis. I carry love, grief deeply, like an Irishman.Collection: Grief
I don't drink because I have problems or I want to escape. I just love drinking and being drunk.Collection: Drinking
When a man sees his end, he wants to know there was some purpose to his life.Collection: Death
I turned Hamlet down because it was going to take up too much of my drinking time.Collection: Drinking
Probably the most distinctive characteristic of the successful politician is selective cowardice.Collection: Successful
LOL has turned into something you type when you have nothing better to add into a conversation.Collection: Add
There was a dream that was Rome. You could only whisper it. Anything more than a whisper and it would vanish, it was so fragile.Collection: Dream
Someone left the cake out in the rain. I don't think that I can take it, cause it took so long to bake it, and I'll never have that recipe again. Oh, no.Collection: Rain
I think that the British government has long been on the record saying global warming is a very serious issue and we need to do something about it. I think what they did was they took their own economic experts and they said, "This time, let's try to put together a document that will really convince the rest of the world of a position that we've been holding for a while."Collection: Thinking
All depends really on what kinds of assumptions you make. When you're forecasting things that will be happening 50 to 100 years in the future, it's really hard to predict what's going to happen that far out, so you have to make a bunch of assumptions.Collection: Assumption
No one trusts me any more. I spent half the movie Maigret (1988) (TV) arguing with people and I was accused of causing big on-set rows. But what they won't tell you is I fought for Simeneon. I fought for the maintenance of quality. I don't believe in lyin.Collection: Believe
If you're an economist and you're asked to predict what something is going to be like 50 years from now? It's going to be guesswork.Collection: Economist
One problem is that we are heavily dependent upon fossil fuels. And that's where the greenhouse gases come from, by and large, some deforestation, as well. But we have not yet come to grips with how to change that. So that's where we are right now.Collection: Problem
The reality was that Warner wasn't there. If there were two people or 20 people identifying him, they were wrong.Collection: Reality