When the world is running down, you make the best of what's still around.
I do my best work when I am in pain and turmoil.
There's no religion but sex and music.
Intellectually I'm probably a Republican.
For to sit in a room full of books, and remember the stories they told you, and to know precisely where each one is located and what was happening in your life at time or where you were when you first read it is the languid and distilled pleasure of the connoisseur.
That sense of failure, I don't know where people put it who don't write songs and aren't able to emote physically. It must go somewhere.