Don't put things off till it's too late. You are the DJ of your fate.

I just love music - by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.

In a painting, you can't make out whether the artist painted the left eye before the right eye. In Chinese calligraphy, you can see the progression of the artist's stroke.

My eyes close. I am here and not here. A waking nap? A flight to the end of the galaxy and perhaps a couple of billion light-years beyond?

I want my books to sell, to be read. I'm not interested in being obscure.

I rarely listen to music while writing. If I don't like it, it bothers me, and if I like it, it absorbs me so much I can't write.

Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.