I couldn't care less what anyone's 'perception' of me is. I'm too long in the tooth to care.

Poetry forces a writer to condense and crystallise his thoughts and often represents a short cut to truths unsuspected by the author himself.

You can actually be bored stiff while you're dying.

I have an over-attachment to precision, which is why I've sold more magazines than any man alive.

As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.

The bottom line is that if I did it, you can do it. I got rich without the benefit of a college education or a penny of capital but making many errors along the way. I went from being a pauper.. a hippie dropout on the dole, living in a crummy room without the proverbial pot to piss in, without even the money to pay the rent, without a clue as to what to do next.. to being rich...

Human beings are definitely changing the planet, but how much impact they are having on climate, I don't know and I don't care.