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

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

The more necessary it becomes to stop drinking, the more impossible it becomes to stop.

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.

What a pity people don't take as much trouble with their own breeding as intelligent racehorse owners do. But then I suppose it is bordering on fascism to think like that.

When I was a boy, I naively thought that this thing called happiness would be something I would wake up to find every day once I could smoke, drink and fornicate.