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I used to hang out with Salvador Dali a lot. He was such a nice man. I really liked his wife Gala, too. People say that she was tricky, but she was never difficult with me.

Dali had a good sense of humor - obviously you could tell just looking at him; he was funny.

I used to hunt and fish.

When I am fishing, I think quite a lot about the fish, but I also think about the book I'm writing.

I'm a fisherman who likes to observe and tell yarns, and so I told stories about things that I knew about.

I used to fish the Border rivers, but nowadays you have to queue up for a shot and I can't stand that.

We have sat on the river bank and caught catfish with pin hooks. The time has come to harpoon a whale.

Da was a real fisherman. But it wasn't the catch that mattered, it was the skill of the cast, the preparation of the flies. I often think my inability to prepare, my desire to get going, are a direct result of watching my father making all those painstaking preparations before he cast his line.

I have friends who remember seeing fish hauled onto a boat's deck and beaten to death.

I asked Dalai Lama the most important question that I think you could ask - if he had ever seen Caddyshack.