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

Great Expectations [book by Charles Dickens] has been described as "Dickens's harshest indictment of society." Which it is. After all, it's about money. About not having enough money; about the fever of the getting of money; about having too much money; about the taint of money.

I have one talent, and that's figuring out what people want about two minutes before they know it themselves.

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

Few things in life are certain except death and being taxed.

Discourse has ended in America. It's all just shouting and ranting and demonization. Do you know how the rest of the world laughs at you guys? Have you got any idea? They're just rocking with laughter night and day.

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