"You think you know how this story is going to end, but you don't. Trust me, I was there. I know."

"Help me Mrs Medlicott, I don't know what to do, I've only got three bullets and there's four of Mötley Crüe."

"I have a temper. My mum's got a temper. My brother's got a temper. You've got to have one. You know what happens if you don't have one? One day you're walking down the street and you just pop. You're …"

"There was a lady walking down the pavement and as we passed she stopped and she said: 'I know you, don't I?' ... I said: 'My name's Muldoon.'. She said: 'You're not related to that bastard in Parliame…"

"It is better to have the child in the chimney corner moved by what happens in the poem, in spite of his ignorance of its real meaning, than to have the poem a puzzle to which that meaning is the only …"