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

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

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.

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

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

You do not need ‪God‬ to tell you what is right. You have a heart - follow that.

It was an impossible achievement but that didn't stop me from trying and having fun.

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.

And soften'd sounds along the waters die: Smooth flow the waves, the zephyrs gently play.

I don't hate cats...as long as they stay on the freeway, where they belong.

We are going to be working very hard on the inner cities having to do with education, having to do with crime. We're going to try and fix as quickly as possible.

Pay attention. Don't just stagger through the day.

When I grew up, you'd see shorts before movies. I know it happened a lot more before I started going to the cinema.

Right now everyone is drinking bad wine made of sour grapes and hysteria. Let them drink it, and let them regret it in the morning.

Daniel gave all the glory to God; he took none of it for himself. There is no limit to what God will do for the believer who will let God have all the glory.