My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.

I'm off everything apart from the fags and the coffee. I don't know if it's worked. It works up until you take your first drink.

I neither want it [brandy] nor need it, but I should think it pretty hazardous to interfere with the ineradicable habit of a lifetime.

Drugs are a bet with your mind.

So many cringes in the heroin binges, I was coming off the hinges, living on the fringes of my imagination.

I'm just an old slag who gets up every morning, scratches his head and wonders what he wants to fuck.