When I go fishing I like to know that there's nobody within five miles of me.
I just didn't want to shoot other people.
When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought, you can't teach poetry. This is ridiculous.
And it's impossible for me to read Henry James.
When I talk of hearing a poet's voice speaking, I always think of it as in the presence of the man.
I used to have a great love for Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, the big boys of the last century.