Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true.

I don't think you can write novels on the road. You need a certain stability.

Everyone has a kind of magical system that they employ in the hopes that this will open up the channels.

It just takes a long time for me [to write a song]. I'm very slow. And it comes, kind of, by dribbles and drops.

I have tried in my way to be free.

You lose your grip, and then you slip into the Masterpiece.

Everybody knows that the dice are loaded, Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed, Everybody knows that the war is over, Everybody knows the good guys lost.