The genius of rock music is that it matched the cultural hysteria around it.

I think if you maintain a force in the world that comes into people's sleep, you are exercising a meaningful power.

A writer decides to follow some ideas and not others for reasons that aren't always clear to him. It's often a matter of intuition.

You have to break through the structure of your own stonework habit just to make yourself listen.

Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us.

Writers, some of us, may tend to see things before other people do, things that are right there but aren't noticed in the way that a writer might notice.

Dying was just an extended version of Ash Wednesday.