I'm very comfortable writing.

Art stands on the shoulders of craft, which means that to get to the art, you must master the craft.

Because of her singing they all went away feeling moved, feeling comforted, feeling, perhaps, the slightest tremors of faith.

Why is it that we understand playing the cello will require work, but we attribute writing to the magic of inspiration?

Some people need a huge amount of attention, and they are worthy of that attention, and they're still exhausting.

When I am emperor, I will abolish private education. Private schools, private college. All of these parents with money and energy and the drive for bake sales and a desire to leave their vast fortunes to education - everybody would have to be eating out of the same educational pot.

I always used to be an inside person, and now I'm an outside person.