I am who I am because of the people who I grew up with and where I'm from.
I then realized my appearance was a bit odd. My right leg was no longer with me. It had caught somewhere in the top of the cockpit as I tried to leave my Spitfire.
Don't listen to anyone who tells you that you can't do this or that. That's nonsense. Make up your mind, you'll never use crutches or a stick, then have a go at everything. Go to school, join in all the games you can. Go anywhere you want to. But never, never let them persuade you that things are too difficult or impossible.
Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.
I think the greatest of all human virtues is loyalty. It embraces all the best of the human character: courage, faith, love and charity.
The successful pilots succeeded because they did not open fire until they were close to the target.
I just made a balls of it, old boy. That's all there was to it.
What the Photograph reproduces to infinity has occurred only once: the Photograph mechanically repeats what could never be repeated existentially.
George Bush is a fan of mine, he came to see me in the Seventies. His coke dealer brought him.
If somebody asked for the first draft of something I'd written, it'd probably be pretty close to whatever got published. I get enjoyment out of writing, but I get absolutely no enjoyment out of rewriting, so I don't do much of it. The more you work on something, certainly, the better it gets. But there's also a pretty clear law of diminishing returns.
Not to our surprise, we discover that gun crime in Britain is up 10. 9 percent since the disarmament of the private citizen.