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

They smoke cigarettes professionally. The smoke is inhaled very sharply and the teeth are bared.Then the head turns to give you a profile and the smoke is exhaled slowly and deliberately and the grey jet stream becomes a beautiful blue cloud of smoke.What are they trying to tell us?

But you've got to have money for comfort, which obviously doesn't matter as much when you're young, but even so. I always like to bloody eat well and be warm. Have a drink when I want it.

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.

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

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

Oh, the self-importance of fading stars. Never mind, they will be black holes one day.