My niece is - her name is Sasha, is currently learning Russian at Melbourne University and I look forward to the day when I can talk to her about Pushkin.

I've only got a fraction of the energy I once had, but I think I probably use it better.

A sceptic finds Dallas absurd. A cynic thinks the public doesn't

One way or another, all the poets of the thirties and forties reacted to Auden, either by rejecting him or trying to absorb him.

As a work of art, it reminds me of a long conversation between two drunks

The inevitable effect of a biographer's hindsight is to belittle the subject's foresight.

You can't be young always. The day will come when everything will fall apart.