Booze is the most outrageous of drugs which is why I chose it.

There's a remedy for everything except death.

I'm the most gregarious of men and love good company, but never less alone when alone.

I became a professional cricket teacher about 20 years ago. I had a son born to me when I was 50, and I thought, he needs someone to bowl to him.

Many years ago I sent an old, beloved jacket to a cleaner, the Sycamore Cleaners. It was a leather jacket covered in Guinness and blood and marmalade, one of those jobs... and it came back with a little note pinned to it, and on the note it said, 'It distresses us to return work which is not perfect.' So that will do for me. That can go on my tombstone.

I can't stand light. I hate weather. My idea of heaven is moving from one smoke-filled room to another.

I wouldn't mind being a lord.