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

If the humanism that makes civilization civilized is to be preserved into the new century, it will need advocates. These advocates will need a memory, and part of that memory will need to be of an age in which they were not yet alive.

The smartest move I ever made in showbusiness was to start off looking like the kind of wreck I would end up as. I was already aged in the wood.

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.

Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.

Sick of being a prisoner of my childhood, I want to put it behind me.

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.