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

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

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.

Well, I love fishing. I wouldn't kill a fly myself but I've no hesitation in killing a fish. A lot of men are like that. No bother. Out you come. Thump. And that's not the only reason.

Landscape is my religion. ...God in a green legend, I lean over the pool In a testament of leaves. I dangle my twinkling mood Before me in a cool cave roofed with branches And floored with a skin of water.

If I wrote a play with four characters every single one of them would talk like me regardless of age or sex.

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