After a rest in Edinburgh, where, passing a music-shop, I heard some blind man playing a mazurka of mine.
I did a production of 'Journey's End,' an RC Sherriff play about World War I, at the Edinburgh Festival. I was 18 and it was the first time that people I knew and loved and respected came up to me after the show and said, 'You know, you could really do this if you wanted to. '
Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed.
We go into the red next year. . . I shall have to give up polo.
If we could just stop the tourism, we could stop the congestion.
This might sound really foolish, but when I came to Edinburgh in 1988 I had spent nearly all my life living south of Bristol, and I was just amazed that a city like Edinburgh was actually in the British isles.
Edinburgh is so cultural and such a beautiful place to walk around.
They have eating dogs for the anorexic now.
I would like to go to Russia very much — although the bastards murdered half my family.
I have an older brother and an older sister - and they had the time of their lives at university. They were at Newcastle and Edinburgh. Looking up to them the whole time, I wanted to go to university and live the life they were living, having a blast, and I didn't get in. I didn't get into any of the universities I wanted to go to.
I had an Edinburgh, middle-class childhood and a public school education.
I want to hang out in Edinburgh with my friends and eat fish and chips wrapped in newspaper.
Glasgow is less polite than Edinburgh but that's a good thing - they keep it very real.
If you stay here much longer you'll all be slitty-eyed.
How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test?
When I used to do the Edinburgh Festival, there was a bunch of guys selling fresh oysters and I'd eat ten daily - marvellous.
Even though one of them is about an Edinburgh junkie and ones a little boy of eight in Manchester, you want them to always portray their world in such a vivid way that the audience can disappear inside the story.
Don't become a philosopher before you become rich.
Deaf? If you're near there, no wonder you are deaf.
If a cricketer suddenly decided to go into a school and batter a lot of people to death with a cricket bat, are you going to ban cricket bats?