I enjoy doing nothing.

One way to stop a runaway horse is to bet on him.

Oh, to me not drinking is like being dead, almost. I sit here taking endless journeys down memory lane. It gets boring.

I have been commissioned to write an autobiography and I would be grateful to any of your readers who could tell me what I was doing between 1960 and 1974.

Journalism is the only thinkable alternative to working.

The more necessary it becomes to stop drinking, the more impossible it becomes to stop.

What a pity people don't take as much trouble with their own breeding as intelligent racehorse owners do. But then I suppose it is bordering on fascism to think like that.

My misdeeds are accidental happenings and merely the result of having been in the wrong bar or bed at the wrong time, say most days between midday and midnight.

It's not name dropping, but not many people can say, like me, that they spent the day with the likes of Francis Bacon or that boring drunk Dylan Thomas. You don't forget things like that.

I was under the care of a couple of medical students who couldn't diagnose a decapitation.

In most betting shops you will see three windows marked 'Bet Here', but only one window with the legend 'Pay Out'.

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Even their downtime was epic.

Early poems are a thing it takes years to live down.

It's important to think of every customer as an online celebrity with followers, friends, & above all influence

All people would really want peace and all would want to be sure that they would not be taken advantage of.

It's an inside job to learn about forgiving, it's an inside job to hang on to the joy of living.

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.

Nothing is really beautiful but truth, and truth alone is lovely.

The first step toward discarding a scarcity mentality involves giving thanks for everything that you have.