Now I know I am an intellectual. I saw Malcolm Muggeridge on the television last night, and I understood nearly every word. It all adds up. A bad home, poor diet, not liking punk. I think I will join the library and see what happens.

I don't know why women are so mad about flowers. Personally, they leave me cold. I prefer trees.

She liked people. Me, I can take them or leave them, but mostly leave them.

Adrian Mole's father was so angry that so many pepole got divorced nowadays. HE had been unhappilly married for 30 years, why should everybody else get away?

Yes - I am usually overweight. I have had to be interested in diet because of being diabetic for 30 years and having kidney failure.

There's only one thing more boring than listening to other people's dreams, and that's listening to their problems.

I have decided to keep a full journal, in the hope that my life will perhaps seem more interesting when it is written down.