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 don't take investment advice from wealth managers. I have grown several businesses from scratch and amassed many millions from my publishing empire - why would I take advice from someone who has never experienced that?

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

I cannot abide being bored.

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

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

False praise is worse than no praise.