But the answer to how to live is to stop thinking about it. And just to live. But you're doing that anyway. However you intellectualise it, you still just live.

Most people live in the city and go to the country at the weekend, and that's posh and aristocratic, but actually to live in the country and come to London when you can't take it any more is different.

Death's just something that inspires me, not something that pulls me down. I used to get called morbid at school. I have always loved horror films; I like being frightened.

Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better.

I can't understand why most people believe in medicine and don't believe in art, without questioning either.

I think an ashtray is the most fantastically real thing.

Never let money get in the way of an idea