I have got so low that I have asked to be hospitalized and for deep narcosis (sleep). I cannot stand being awake. The pain is too much... Something has happened to me, this vital spark has stopped burning - I go to a dinner table now and I don't say a word, just sit there like a dodo. Normally I am the centre of attention, keeps the conversation going, - so that is depressing in itself. It's like another person taking over, very strange. The most important thing I say is 'good evening' and then I go quiet.

The most difficult book I have ever read was a manual on the use of iron bangles by A.J. Thompson.

My Father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic.

Aristocrats have heirs; the poor have children; the rest keep dogs.

We don't have anything planned, so nothing can go wrong.

I'm a hero wid coward's legs, I'm a hero from the waist up.

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all the people some of the time, which is just long enough to be president of the United States.