It's a strange situation, but people will pay your fare to get you to go and tell them how to be happy.

Britain cherishes her eccentrics and wisely holds that the function of government is to build a walled garden in which anarchy can flourish.

Every day someone notices me and waves to me, or stops and speaks to me, or asks me for an autograph, or photographs me.

I was beaten up wherever I went, and people shouted at me and cursed me and threw things at me.

I have to work in England, but here in America you don't have to work. You can sort of enter the profession of being.

You should make no effort to try to join society, stay right where you are. Give your name and serial number and wait for society to come to you.

I stay in one room, and it's easier to live there, to control it, to make it warm. It seems to me a convenient way to live, and it's cheap.