Music has no limits of a life-span.

Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.

In various and different circumstances certain objects and individuals are going to turn out to be vital. The wager of survival cannot, by its nature, reveal which, in advance of events.

I'm forty-nine but I could be twenty-five except for my face and my legs.

You can't change a regime on the basis of compassion. There's got to be something harder.

All worthwhile writing... comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.

Perhaps the best way to write is to do so as if one were already dead, afraid of no one's reactions, answerable to no one's views.