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.

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.

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

Having a great idea is simply not enough. The eventual goal is vastly more important than any idea. It is how ideas are implemented that counts in the long run

I have been portrayed by actors in three television documentaries, two plays, one musical and a film. It's no fun watching yourself being traduced and imitated by an actor.

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

The age of celebrity editors and monstrous staffing are over.