Since I have become a motorcyclist, I feel I have become a better car driver as well. You just tend to be more aware of all the things that can go wrong on the road.

I find if you've got men in a group the testosterone kicks in - they are a bit prone to become boy racers.

I was a bit apprehensive about joining. But it just gave me so much more confidence.

It has brought us closer together.

Well she was bright; and she danced...And my function in life was to keep that bright thing in existence. And it was almost as difficult as trying to catch with your hand that dancing reflection. And the task lasted for years.

I may really say that for a quarter of a century I have kept before me one unflinching aim - to register my own times in terms of my own time, and still more to urge those who are better poets and better prose-writers than myself to have the same aim.