I enjoy doing nothing.

I don't remember ever being full of dislike and hatred for people, like some kids I've come across now.

I have stood in a bar in Lambourn and been offered, in the space of five minutes, a poached salmon, a leg of a horse, a free trip to Chantilly, marriage, a large unsolicited loan, ten tips for a ten-horse race, two second-hand cars, a fight, and the copyright to a dying jockey's life story.

A lot of girls annoy me who go to university - one girl told me she was going to Oxford because it was something to do between leaving school and getting married. And I've got to pay for that being an income tax payer.

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

I was under the care of a couple of medical students who couldn't diagnose a decapitation.

One of the things that goes with getting older is that one becomes more conservative - and I emphasise that when I use the word conservative I do not mean politically.