We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.

I had no idea of who could play it, no notion really. Then Richard came to see us but I don't think it was decided at that meeting. The trouble is, as soon as you've chosen somebody it obscures anybody else you might have thought of. It's like going to a place that you've never been to before - you've got a picture of it and then you go there and that picture is totally wiped out by the reality.

I can walk. It's just that I'm so rich I don't need to.

If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.

Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.

I suppose I'm the only person who remembers one of the most exciting of his ballets-it's the fruit of an unlikely collaboration between Nijinsky on the one hand and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on the other.

Life is rather like a tin of sardines - we're all of us looking for the key.