You've got to keep the child alive; you can't create without it.

I hate show business.

I'm a little young for retirement.

I liked playing in small clubs. I really liked holding the attention of thirty or forty people. I never liked the roar of the big crowd.

Won't you stay We'll put on the day And we'll talk in present tenses

My goal as a writer is more to comfort than to disturb.

I think I would go further into fine arts, I think, if I were to continue.