Until I was 42, I could fit everything that I owned into two suitcases.

I keep a quotes journal - of every sentence that I've wanted to remember from my reading of the past 30 years.

I'd like, each time out as a writer, to reinvent who I am and what I'm doing. That's one of the great pleasures and rewards of the occupation.

The thing that makes reading and writing suspect in the eyes of the market economy is that it's not corrupted.

The use of music is to remind us how short a time we have a body.

The oldest principle of composition: repeat everything.

Reading is the last act of secular prayer.