Like a Volvo, Bjorn Borg is rugged, has good after-sales service, and is very dull.

A life without fame can be a good life, but fame without a life is no life at all.

This quality becomes important at a time when almost everyone is a poet. And as I said, we live in an age where almost everybody is a poet, but scarcely anyone can write a poem.

Being young is wonderful. But one of the secrets of being a human individual - a mature human individual shall we put it rather grandly - is that you can see this desire in perspective.

Ban poetry. And make sure that anyone caught reading it is expelled from school. Then it will acquire the glamour.

I've got life for a subject because as life starts to drain away, you start seeing very clearly what life is, for the first time.

Sometimes I feel if I was young again, I would wrap a bandana around my head like Douglas Fairbanks Sr. and I would become a pirate of the Web. And I would go around stealing poems and assembling into one spot like a treasure cave.