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.

For a start, the salary begins to have an attraction and addictiveness all of its own. A regular paycheck and crack cocaine have that in common. In addition, and more to the point, working too long for other people can blunt your desire to take risks. This last factor is crucial, because the ability to live with and embrace risk is what sets apart the financial winners and losers in the world.

No woman or girl is going to want to spend time looking at pretty dresses on the Internet. Vogue is going to be around for a long time to come.

Without self belief nothing can be accomplished. With it, nothing is impossible.

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

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

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