I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own.

A terrible thing about getting oldish is that your friends start dying, and in the last ten years I have lost seven or eight of my closest.

I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own.

I used to have a great love for Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, the big boys of the last century.

Well, I'm a light traveller. I chuck things away.

All I write about is what's happened to me and to people I know, and the better I know them, the more likely they are to be written about.

I was very interested in American poetry for many years. Much less now.