I am an artist, I trade in uncertainty and superstition and cant. I invent dark visions of impossible situations that can never be resolved. - Ralph Steadman

Each boat is worth the price of a new university and they are watched by gin-soaked yachting types, male and female, in captain's hats lounging in deckchairs inside Perspex covered enclosures at the front of yet more expensive, floating country houses representing nothing more than elegantly vulgar expressions of dodgy wealth. The America's Cup.

' Don't write, Ralph. You'll bring shame on your family. ' -- Hunter S. Thompson --

I don't think that at the time, or now, come to think of it, I gave a damn. Foolishly, I wanted truth and idealism, but there was none to be had.