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?

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?

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

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

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

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.

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