Great Expectations [book by Charles Dickens] has been described as "Dickens's harshest indictment of society." Which it is. After all, it's about money. About not having enough money; about the fever of the getting of money; about having too much money; about the taint of money.

I never sue journalists. I employ journalists. I employ too many of them. I don't sue journalists.

Publishing magazines for yourself is not good business, man.

If you are unwilling to fail, sometimes publicly and even catastrophically, you will never be rich.

People really do not have time to read all the newspapers in the world and all the sites that we now commonly use on the web. There is no possibility of keeping up.

America, ladies and gentlemen, has done more for me financially than Britain ever has, or ever could have done.

Poetry is one of the oldest of all art forms, and one of its powers for shamans and tribal leaders was the mnemonic.