And I had not much of a voice. I didn't play that great guitar either.

We used to play music for fun. Much more than now. Now nobody picks up a guitar unless they're paid for it.

My two great heroes are W. B. Yeats and Federico García Lorca.

I never had the sense that there was an end: that there was a retirement or that there was a jackpot.

There are writers who are great visionaries, who can depict huge movements - things like that. They're the great writers. I'm just the other kind.

My mind was always very cluttered, so I took great pains to simplify my environment, because if my environment were half as cluttered as my mind, I wouldn't be able to make it from room to room.