One of the virtues of the NHS... it doesn't worry you about money at the moment when you're least capable of doing anything about it.

John McEnroe has hair like badly turned broccoli.

A sense of humour is common sense dancing.

People should be stopped from writing poetry. There's far too much of it. And if they're any good, they'll go ahead anyways.

She [Marilyn Monroe] was good at being inarticulately abstracted for the same reason that midgets are good at being short.

I won't have to miss smoking any more. Nobody smokes where I'm going: It's like a row of restaurants in California.

It's a big thing to call yourself a poet. All I can say is that I have always written poems. I don't think I'm interested in any discussion about whether I'm a good poet, a bad poet or a great poet. But I am sure, I want to write great poems. I think every poet should want that.