People think that because I write about India I must be trying to portray India in a way.
He was certainly in a confused state. I used to go and visit him in Callan Park. They were really - to me they were the best poets those two writing in those days but it wasn't very encouraging because, well, they weren't getting far were they?
If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk.

