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

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.

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

There's nothing undignified about lying about all day and being waited on by servants, sipping bloody champagne.

Funny how "question" contains the word "quest" inside it, as though any small question asked is a journey through briars.

As a child I never thought about what I wanted to be, but I thought a lot about what I wanted to do.

Being on a lunchbox was awesome, and being on a thermos was pretty cool, too.

I don't want to be famous. I like to be able to sit in a cafe and watch the world go by and observe people.

Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.

I've had good times; I've had bad times.

It was at once a miracle and the most natural thing in the world.

The 'Crue' is not the hardest band to cover. There are no harmonies like the Eagles.

Being a philanthropist doesn't mean necessarily writing a huge check. It can mean mobilizing your community to start asking questions.

If you can live the beauty of the misty mornings, you are the king, you are the queen!