And in a way, that's been a help to me, because I take great passions for a particular poet - sometimes it lasts for many years, sometimes only for a while. This happens to everybody.

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

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

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

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.

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.