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

I want to prove that if you write in strict meter and rhyme about subjects people care about, they will buy poetry.

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

Knowing isn't doing; doing isn't knowing. Nothing but the knowing and the doing gets it done.

If the influence of luck is a delusion, then all I can say is that the delusion is virtually universal.

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

It's very difficult to be continuously charitable in a capitalistic society. You've also got to make sure that you can pay everyone who works for you.