People change and forget to tell each other.

If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.

Maybe money is unreal for most of us, easier to give away than things we want.

The judgment of music, like the inspiration for it, must come slow and measured, if it comes with truth.

What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.

Advances are made by those with at least a touch of irrational confidence in what they can do.

You are what you are. It is my opinion that trouble in the world comes from people who do not know what they are, and pretend to be something they're not.