I am absolutely convinced that my life was redeemed by poetry.

Teamwork is the glue which binds losers together

If it flies, floats or fornicates, always rent it.. it's cheaper in the long run.

You shouldn't go around the world behaving ruthlessly when you don't have to. Sometimes you do have to. There is only so much pie to go around. If you're going to take more than your fair share of pie, as socialists would look at it, then someone else is not getting his. That means you've got to take it away from them.

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

'The Week' is my favourite magazine. Everyone from presidents to CEOs of companies love it, politicians, people in the massive charity business in America, in the arts and even more especially in the media.

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