Every country should have a strong literary tradition of its own at the center, but it should also have an interest in other countries.

I think jogging is bad for your health. All that pressure on the knees and back cannot be good for you.

I cannot start a story or chapter without knowing how it ends. ... Of course, it rarely ends that way.

My friends and I took songwriting very, very seriously. My hero was and still is Bob Dylan, but also people like Leonard Cohen and Joni Mitchell and that whole generation.

What I'm not sure about, is if our lives have been so different from the lives of the people we save. We all complete. Maybe none of us really understand what we've lived through, or feel we've had enough time.

The evening's the best part of the day. You've done your day's work. Now you can put your feet up and enjoy it.

Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don’t go along with that. The memories I value most, I don’t ever see them fading.