I think it would be interesting if old people got anti-Alzheimer's disease where they slowly began to recover other people's lost memories.

There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.

I recently went to a new doctor and noticed he was located in something called the Professional Building. I felt better right away.

When someone is impatient and says, 'I haven't got all day,' I always wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day?

He came to the States in 1963, I think with a view to making up with my mother, but that didn't work. He came for three weeks, and drank his way all over Brooklyn. And went back... I went to his funeral in Belfast.

Some people think I have a death wish. I don't have one. I just make mistakes. Bad things happen to good people.

There's nothing unusual about a single language dying. But what's going on today is extraordinary when we compare the situation to what has happened in the past. We're seeing languages dying out on a massive scale.

I'm scared to death to fly commercial... I have not flown commercial since 9/11.