If we tried to write about politics you'd realize that we're all a bunch of idiots.

Broadcasters or politicians or writers who think that they are respecting Struggle Street the battlers by dumbing things down into one-line sound bites are not respecting them they are treating them with contempt. It's our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them.

I hate politics. I like to write about it but to get involved in it to try and make a lot of ignorant people do what you want them to do waste of time. Go and write a book. It's more important and it'll last longer.

I'm not the guy to ask about politics. I'm a gag writer.

And you don't want to always write about politics just for the sake of writing about politics.

I must not write a word to you about politics because you are a woman.

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

I know many writers who first dictate passages then polish what they have dictated. I speak then I polish - occasionally I do windows.

I write poetry in order to live more fully.

I'm looking for a guy who makes you want to dance and write poetry all day long.