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

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.

Ideas don't make you rich. The correct execution of ideas does.

Say to yourself: The world is full of money. Some of it has my name on it. All I have to do is collect it.

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.

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