But I hang on to books. I love them. I even think they're very nice decor in a room - far better than paintings... That's not quite true!

I used to fish the Border rivers, but nowadays you have to queue up for a shot and I can't stand that.

I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry.

I just didn't want to shoot other people.

Anybody who writes doesn't like to be misunderstood.

And it's impossible for me to read Henry James.

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.