I've Got Life For A Subject Because

The Inevitable Effect Of A Biographer's Hindsight Is To Belittle The Subject's Foresight.

Almost 70 Years Have Gone By, And I've Still Got That Feeling When I Write... Writing, For Me, Is Still It. It Has Always Been The Basis Of Everything I Do. I'm A Writer Who Performs, Not A Performer Who Writes. I Love The Act Of Writing. It's Still A Thrill For Me.

A Lot Of My Poems Are About How Ill I Am And How I Probably Won't Live Beyond Next Week. I Publish A Poem And Everyone Says 'cluck Cluck, How Wonderful, How Brave', But Then Embarrassingly I'm Still Here! You See The Problem?

Sick Of Being A Prisoner Of My Childhood, I Want To Put It Behind Me.

Among Artists Without Talent Marxism Will Always Be Popular, Since It Enables Them To Blame Society For The Fact That Nobody Wants To Hear What They Have To Say.