"People think I don't like interviews but I don't mind speaking about proper and interesting stuff. When it's stupid stuff to build your image and you are told to mention this and mention that, I hate it."

“Plenty of guys are good at sex, but conversation, now there's an art.”

Source : Linda Barnes (2013). “A Trouble of Fools”, p.39, Macmillan

“You have to hold yourself accountable for your actions, and that's how we're going to protect the Earth.”

“I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.”

“President Obama is riding the wrong horse on energy.”

“Sometimes I feel like I'm a preacher as well, 'cause I can really get into an audience.”

“I have referred to myself as an accidental activist on more than one occasion.”

Source : "MoveOn as an Instrument of the People". Interview with Terrence McNally, www.alternet.org. June 24, 2004.

“I'm very interested in stopping time. And starting time. There is that aspect of time that I'm playing with, that it's elusive and unnoticed yet really in the end the most important thing.”

“Last week a former Royal Marine who is the boyfriend of the model Kelly Brooks crashed into a bus stop while driving a van carrying a load of dead badgers. I mention this solely to remind you that linguists are not kidding when they say … that your command of English enables you to understand sentences that have never occurred before in the entire history of the human species.”