DiCaprio's life is the perfect example of how not to be. I would not wish his life on anybody.
The way one approaches a wilderness story is to fashion a quest - find something that you are truly interested in finding or discovering.
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?

