Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn't do to upset one's own vanity.

It snowed last year too: I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother down and then we had tea.

I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real sentences. But our innocence goes awfully deep, and our discreditable secret is that we don't know anything at all, and our horrid inner secret is that we don't care that we don't.

I have just had eighteen whiskeys in a row. I do believe that is a record.

And I rose In rainy autumn And walked abroad in a shower of all my days.

Poetry is not the most important thing in life... I'd much rather lie in a hot bath reading Agatha Christie and sucking sweets.

Oh as I was young and easy in the mercy of his means, Time held me green and dying Though I sang in my chains like the sea.