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

I couldn't care less what anyone's 'perception' of me is. I'm too long in the tooth to care.

The age of celebrity editors and monstrous staffing are over.

Poetry is one of the oldest of all art forms, and one of its powers for shamans and tribal leaders was the mnemonic.

Ideas don't make you rich. The correct execution of ideas does.

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've been busy for years, buying land, often under pseudonyms, and planting trees on it. All the money is going into it when I die.. and in the end I'd like to think that it will be 20 to 30,000 acres.