It is a thrill to be publishing the autobiography of a truly iconic figure whose life story will be of interest to millions of people around the world.

I'm writing an unauthorized autobiography.

Those who rule the world get so little opportunity to run about and laugh and play in it.

Choking with dry tears and raging, raging, raging at the absolute indifference of nature and the world to the death of love, the death of hope and the death of beauty, I remember sitting on the end of my bed, collecting these pills and capsules together and wondering why, why when I felt I had so much to offer, so much love, such outpourings of love and energy to spend on the world, I was incapable of being offered love, giving it or summoning the energy with which I knew I could transform myself and everything around me.

The course of life in unpredictable. No one can write his autobiography in advance.

Thos who rule the world get so little opportunity to run about and laugh and play in it.