The only reason I would have liked to have gone to university is because I like cricket. Not a very good reason to want to go, but as good as any, I suppose.

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

In most betting shops you will see three windows marked 'Bet Here', but only one window with the legend 'Pay Out'.

Although I have to admit I have despised a couple of people simply because they have never had a job in their lives.

It's not name dropping, but not many people can say, like me, that they spent the day with the likes of Francis Bacon or that boring drunk Dylan Thomas. You don't forget things like that.

The only reason I would have liked to have gone to university is because I like cricket. Not a very good reason to want to go, but as good as any, I suppose.

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.