I am suing Lord Beaverbrook for libel and hope for some lovely tax-free money in damages. He has very conveniently told some lies about me.

It doesn't matter what people call you unless they call you pigeon pie and eat you up.

I have no technical psychological interest; it is drama, speech,and events that interest me.

You spend the first term at Oxford meeting interesting and exciting people and the rest of your time there avoiding them

Evelyn Waugh: How do you get your main pleasure in life, Sir William? Sir William Beveridge: I get mine trying to leave the world a better place than I found it. Waugh: I get mine spreading alarm and despondency and I get more satisfaction than you do.

An artist must be a reactionary

...its a rather pleasant change when all your life you've had people looking after you, to have someone to look after yourself. Only of course it has to be someone pretty hopeless to need looking after by me.