Anger has been ready to be angry.

Only half of writing is saying what you mean. The other half is preventing people from reading what they expected you to mean.

Nothing important comes with instructions.

What is more yours than what always holds you back?

The best way to know your faults is to notice which ones you accuse others of.

Writing is like washing windows in the sun. With every attempt to perfect clarity, you make a new smear.

When I am trying to write I turn on music so I can hear what is keeping me from hearing.

Sophistication is upscale conformity.

The happy and the suffering probably understand life equally well, but the sufferers may see a little more clearly how little it is that they understand.

It is the empty seats that listen most raptly.

All work is the avoidance of harder work.

The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.

She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain

He had a look of composed dissatisfaction, as if he understood life thoroughly.

The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.

I don't play pyrotechnic scales. I play about frustration, patience, anger. Music is an extension of my soul.

Maybe if I try hard enough, we'll fall into each other and become one single person and we can share our pain instead of carrying it by ourselves.

Of course there are people who would like to eat breakfast without the screams of toddlers all around them, but those people should get over themselves and stop being stuck up and idiotic.

When a man induces his wife to turn suspicious thoughts against her own father, then that is surely cause enough for resentment.

The way we are educated and entertained keep us from knowing about or understanding the pain of others.

What a paragon of virtue you are, gunslinger!" the man in black laughed.