I just didn't want to shoot other people.

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.

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

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.

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

I was very interested in American poetry for many years. Much less now.

I don't think of myself all the time.