One way to stop a runaway horse is to bet on him.

I have been commissioned to write an autobiography and I would be grateful to any of your readers who could tell me what I was doing between 1960 and 1974.

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

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

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

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

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.