Journalism is the only thinkable alternative to working.

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.

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'.

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

It is your eyes that guide me home.

Live like the season is ending and the birds are leaving, fight against the winds of the fall like the last leave.

Every kind of science, if it has only reached a certain degree of maturity, automatically becomes a part of mathematics.

People want more real artistes. They want girls who can actually sing and play an instrument and write their own songs - that's not fake and manufactured anymore".

I'm working it out, man. I'm working through some stuff, trying to find my way like everyone.

We can learn to be the catalysts for our own change.

I’m partial to the truth, Lo. Good, bad or indifferent. (Vane)

Folk-rock hasn't changed much over the decades since the Byrds started it.

And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong to the union.

We continue to make more money when snoring than when active.