I think having a great idea is vastly overrated. I know it sounds kind of crazy and counterintuitive. I don't think it matters what the idea is, almost. You need great execution.

Ideas don't make you rich. The correct execution of ideas does.

If the influence of luck is a delusion, then all I can say is that the delusion is virtually universal.

Rich people always have a certain degree of debt. Apparently it helps to reduce taxes. I'm not so hot on the bean-counting side.

Obviously, waste disposal is an enormous and fantastic industry.

I hear poets complaining: 'We face what our forebears did not face. We face TV. We face radio. We face this and that.'

I have been portrayed by actors in three television documentaries, two plays, one musical and a film. It's no fun watching yourself being traduced and imitated by an actor.