On out deathbeds we're not going to regret all the work we didn't do. We're going to regret all the sex we didn't have!

History must not be written with bias, and both sides must be given, even if there is only one side.

I don't think I am any good. If I thought I was any good, I wouldn't be.

Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury, not a necessity like petrol. But to me it's the oil of life.

I ought to warn you that my verse is of no interest to people who can think.

I have a Vision of the Future, chum. The workers flats in fields of soya beans tower up like silver pencils, score on score.

Topography is one of my chief themes in my poetry, about the country, the suburbs and the seaside. Then there comes love... and increasingly; the fear of death.