There are some friends you don't meet for twenty years and when you meet them again it's as if no twenty years has happened - you're lucky when that happens. I feel the same about books.

And some poets are far better read off the page because they're very bad speakers. I'm thinking of one in particular whom I won't name, a good poet, and he reads in such a dry, boring way, your eyes start drooping.

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

I only keep books that I like very much. Otherwise I'd throw them out.

I just didn't want to shoot other people.

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

There are some friends you don't meet for twenty years and when you meet them again it's as if no twenty years has happened - you're lucky when that happens. I feel the same about books.