In most betting shops you will see three windows marked 'Bet Here', but only one window with the legend 'Pay Out'.

One way to stop a runaway horse is to bet on him.

Oh, to me not drinking is like being dead, almost. I sit here taking endless journeys down memory lane. It gets boring.

I have been commissioned to write an autobiography and I would be grateful to any of your readers who could tell me what I was doing between 1960 and 1974.

Journalism is the only thinkable alternative to working.

The more necessary it becomes to stop drinking, the more impossible it becomes to stop.

What a pity people don't take as much trouble with their own breeding as intelligent racehorse owners do. But then I suppose it is bordering on fascism to think like that.

My misdeeds are accidental happenings and merely the result of having been in the wrong bar or bed at the wrong time, say most days between midday and midnight.

It's not name dropping, but not many people can say, like me, that they spent the day with the likes of Francis Bacon or that boring drunk Dylan Thomas. You don't forget things like that.

I was under the care of a couple of medical students who couldn't diagnose a decapitation.

There's nothing undignified about lying about all day and being waited on by servants, sipping bloody champagne.

Don't search for perfection nor seek the approval of others

My mind s a center of divine operations

In all activities of life, the secret of efficiency lies in an ability to combine two seemingly incompatible states: a state of maximum activity and a state of maximum relaxation.

Despite all our toil and progress, the art of medicine still falls somewhere between trout casting and spook writing.

I gave up medicine. So I'll give up fashion. . . I could be a colorist of spaceships.

Greatness begins beyond your comfort zone.

I don't feel competitive.

Live in the active voice, rather than passive. Think more about what you happen than what is happening to you.

All women are feminists. Being a feminist is allowing woman to be natural, for what she is, whatever it is. All of us can be natural and we're all feminists in that sense.