A great whispering noise began to rise in the woods on either side of the tracks, as if the forest had just noticed we were there and was commenting on it.

Hemingway sucks. If I set out to write that way, it would have been been hollow and lifeless because it wasn't me.

I think we rarely recognize the fifth business in our lives at the time those people are changing us.

And people who don’t dream, who don’t have any kind of imaginative life, they must… they must go nuts. I can’t imagine that.

The death of the music business was insane, but audio recordings have been around now for maybe 120 years. Books have been around for, what, nine centuries? So they're more entrenched than music.

If there is love, smallpox scars are as pretty as dimples. - Japanese Proverb

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet.