All human activity is fruitless when pitted against the girls and boys singing on pop television, for they have found the answer as the rest of us search for the question. I will sing, too. If not, I will have to die.

The Queen is the ultimate dictator.

If you must write prose or poems, the words you use should be your own. Don't plagiarize or take 'on loan'. There's always someone, somewhere, with a big nose, who knows, who'll trip you up and laugh when you fall.

For the first time in my life the eternal 'I' becomes 'we', as, finally, I can get on with someone.

There's more to life than books you know, but not much more.

Bring me the head of Elton John . . . which is one instance in which meat would not be murder, if it were served on a plate.

I was never young. This idea of fun: cars, girls, saturday night, bottle of wine... to me, these things are morbid. I was always attracted to people with the same problems as me. It doesn't help when most of them are dead.