Beyoncé and pathos are strangers. Amy Winehouse and pathos are flatmates, and you should see the kitchen.

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.

I've only got a fraction of the energy I once had, but I think I probably use it better.

Little books are the things to write at my age, I've decided. Avoid the big ones, go for the little ones.

Every sentence he manages to utter scatters its component parts like pond water from a verb chasing its own tail.

Arnold Schwarzenegger looks like a brown condom full of walnuts.

As a work of art, it reminds me of a long conversation between two drunks