The interesting thing is that you don't often meet a poet who doesn't have a sense of humour, and some of them do keep it out of their poems because they're afraid of being seen as light versifiers.

I've said what I'm prepared to say in my poems, and then journalists think that you're going to tell them a whole lot more.

I've never been more famous than I was, suddenly, in 1986.

I like a quiet life.

I've read pretty broadly on the Holocaust - both fiction and non-fiction - and to me, 'The Lost Wife' is one of the best. The horrors of war serve as a backdrop to a love affair that spans a lifetime, and that love story stayed with me long after I put down the book.

We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.

I have come to fight for peace, and I will not give my hand to those who try to turn the word 'peace' into a dirty one.

Before she was a King, my mother was a peace advocate, a courageous leader, and an accomplished artist.