I got to see first hand what he has done to make this a reality. That has been real rewarding to watch him achieve his dream.

We've invested millions of dollars in tourism. Now they're trying to industrialize and pollute the ocean. It doesn't make any sense to me at all.

The true experimenters are there but no-one hears about them - the critical/review system tends to concentrate on the handful of 'major' writers and their promising successors; bookshops tend not to sell them; publishers don't promote them. It's the same fate as has befallen poetry.

I have a backlog of novels which I would love to be working on and would be working on if I were not obliged to hold down a full time job.

It's always better if you're next door. Ideas come up at the oddest times. They don't always come up in a conference call.

You look out on the driving range and it looks like snow, but it isn't, it's covered in golf balls.

It's basically a home-rule issue. I think the governing authority that appoints people as assessors certainly has reasons for doing it. ... And it certainly ought to be the board of assessors' right to say who is best qualified to serve as an appraiser.