The thing that I do is that when I fail, I just keep quiet about it. I just let it go. It's done. I just go to the next thing. I don't complain, I don't go to - I pick my battles very, very judiciously, and I just assume that there's good in the heart of everybody.

I just read history books. I read nothing but history books. They have so much to give; I wish I'd majored in history in college.

God is the color of water. Water doesn't have a color.

Writing for me is cutting out the fat and getting to the meaning.

There has to be some mystery in life, because the joy of being a writer and the joy of being a musician is the joy of discovery. I don't want someone discovering for me what I should be discovering on my own. If a person is discovering for me, then they're living for me. It's my responsibility, indeed it's my privilege, to go out and discover the world for myself.

It is hard to find romance in the present because there's nothing left to the imagination.

My family is my career.