Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails.

I am absolutely convinced that my life was redeemed by poetry.

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

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

For me, temptation is life and I have a gargantuan appetite for everything.

People who get trapped in the tunnel vision of making money think that is all there is to life.

America, ladies and gentlemen, has done more for me financially than Britain ever has, or ever could have done.