The beginnings of a forest is one of the ugliest things on the planet. It's bleak and your neighbours hate you.

I thoroughly object to getting old. If you could let me be 16 again, I'd give you everything I've got and everything I'll ever have.

America is an empire. I hope you know that now. All empires, by definition, are bumbling, shambolic, bullying, bureaucratic affairs, as certain of the rightness of their cause in infancy, as they are corrupted by power in their dotage.

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

The beginnings of a forest is one of the ugliest things on the planet. It's bleak and your neighbours hate you.

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

I have one talent, and that's figuring out what people want about two minutes before they know it themselves.