Being sober for so many years is getting interesting.

If man ever comes to perfect equilibrium with the environment, we'll all be redundant, perhaps because you won't need art or letters.

I have no memories I'm prepared to share with you.

It's my job, it's what I do, it's what I'm on earth to do and it's who I am.

I'm a working stiff, baby, just like everybody else.

If you can't do something willingly and joyfully, then don't do it.

For me, life has either been a wake or a wedding.

When I work with young people, I grab energy from them by the hands.

What I like is bottomless flattery.

There's a remedy for everything except death.

The only thing I've ever been interested in teaching anyone in life is cricket.

Booze is the most outrageous of drugs which is why I chose it.

If you cannot say what you mean, your majesty, you will never mean what you say and a gentleman should always mean what he says.

And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

A victory? What have we won? We've won a rock in the middle of a wasteland, on the shores of a poisoned sea.

I can't stand light. I hate weather. My idea of heaven is moving from one smoke-filled room to another.

Marriage is forever. It's like cement.

I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony.

George Eliot is my only steady girlfriend. We go to bed together every night.