A lot of my books deal with very controversial issues that most people often don't want to talk about, issues that, in my country, are more likely to get put under the carpet than get discussed. And when you talk about moral conundrums, about shades of gray, what you're doing is asking the people who want the world to be black and white to realize instead that maybe it's all right if it isn't. I know you'll learn something picking up my books, but my goal as a writer is not to teach you but to make you ask more questions.

So study your rock history, son. That be the Bible of the Blues.

We can look, but we'd better not touch.

It doesn't feel good when you're put down, and especially for no uncertain reason.

Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.

I had gotten one of the first Korg synthesizers with 300 presets.

To love and be loved is all we know and all we need to know.