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'.

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

Stop giving the best part of you to those unworthy of that gift.

When the lost doesn’t want to be found, he cannot be regarded as the lost!

Opportunity never comes to you but you should take initiative to get the opportunity.

An artist should have more than two eyes.

Each love is unique. Special. Giving to one never takes away from another.

Art requires imagination. It requires Creativity. Creativity requires experience and experience comes from your life. And your life is expressed in your art.

For a long time, I saw writing prose as chewing rocks compared to the velocities of writing poetry.

You win only if you aren't afraid to lose.

You must attain a neurological and biological serenity in chaos. You cannot let yourself be sabotaged by adrenaline.

It was as hysterical as a woman having a hot flash.