Ali Moshiri Quotes

But you`ve got to have money for comfort, which obviously doesn`t matter as much when you`re young, but even so. I always like to bloody eat well and be warm. Have a drink when I want it.

One of the things that goes with getting older is that one becomes more conservative - and I emphasise that when I use the word conservative I do not mean politically.

I don`t remember ever being full of dislike and hatred for people, like some kids I`ve come across now.

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

A lot of girls annoy me who go to university - one girl told me she was going to Oxford because it was something to do between leaving school and getting married. And I`ve got to pay for that being an income tax payer.

I enjoy doing nothing.

The only reason I would have liked to have gone to university is because I like cricket. Not a very good reason to want to go, but as good as any, I suppose.

Although I have to admit I have despised a couple of people simply because they have never had a job in their lives.

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.

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

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

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.