Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.

I learned that if I could read, I could cook. I surprised myself I like it.

Fantasy is one of the soul's brighter porcelains.

We set down feasts for each other and treated our love with tongues of fire. Our bodies were fields of wonder to us.

I was trying to unravel the complicated trigonometry of the radical thought that silence could make up the greatest lie ever told.

Do you think that Hemingway knew he was a writer at twenty years old? No, he did not. Or Fitzgerald, or Wolfe. This is a difficult concept to grasp. Hemingway didn't know he was Ernest Hemingway when he was a young man. Faulkner didn't know he was William Faulkner. But they had to take the first step. They had to call themselves writers. That is the first revolutionary act a writer has to make. It takes courage. But it's necessary

Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.