In my next life I want to live backwards. Start out dead and finish off as an orgasm.

You can't work at a relationship; you can't control it. You have to be lucky and go through your life. If you are not lucky you have to be prepared for some degree of suffering. That's why most relationships are very difficult and have some degree of pain. People stay together because of inertia, they don't have the energy. Because they are frightened of being lonely, or they have children.

90 per cent of success is turning up.

I'm really a timid person - I was beaten up by Quakers

You can learn technological things, you can learn about specific things, but the real problems that people deal with in any subject, existential subjects or romantic subjects, you never learn anything. So you make a fool of yourself when you're 20, you make a fool of yourself at 40, at 60 at 80. The ancient Greeks were dealing with these problems. They screwed up all the time. People do now.

At the trial Stubbs chose to act as his own lawyer, but a conflict over his fee led to ill feelings.

This stuff tastes awful; I could have made a fortune selling it in my health-food store.