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

Obviously, waste disposal is an enormous and fantastic industry.

You can actually be bored stiff while you're dying.

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

I love the business of business; I love the risk raking.

Making money is certainly the one addiction I cannot shake.

'The Week' is my favourite magazine. Everyone from presidents to CEOs of companies love it, politicians, people in the massive charity business in America, in the arts and even more especially in the media.