I consider myself to be very correct and proper: an upright citizen.

I like to remind myself that every morning I'm making a choice to live.

I live my life like an open book, even though it's open on the wrong page.

I didn't want to tell Mother I worked as a journalist. She thought I was a prostitute. Locking yourself in a room and inventing characters and conversations which do not exit is no way for a grown man to behave.

I am not an intellectual. An intellectual is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso, whereas I just say 'pass the mustard'.

We can't all be stars because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as I go by.