I just didn't want to shoot other people.

All I write about is what's happened to me and to people I know, and the better I know them, the more likely they are to be written about.

When I go fishing I like to know that there's nobody within five miles of me.

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.

I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry.

In fact a lot of them I think are absolute baloney. Those Charles Olsens and people like that. At first I was interested in seeing what they were up to, what they were doing, why they were doing it. They never moved me in the way that one is moved by true poetry.

I just didn't want to shoot other people.