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

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

You have an advantage that neither education nor upbringing can buy - you have almost nothing. And therefore you have almost nothing to lose.

It's a long, slow sunset for ink-on-paper magazines, but sunsets can produce vast sums of money.

False praise is worse than no praise.

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

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