The world was very feminine when I was young. And now it's very masculine.

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

Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.

The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as 'Soho' poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.

It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn't give enough.

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

Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.