Being good at what you do is never enough

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.

...five minutes from now, when everything else had dropped away and I realized the full impact of what I’d done, I’d feel my heart breaking.

You when the storm is raging - how do you face despair? It is you that the world discovers, whatever the clothes you wear.

I want to hear the chanting Around a heathen fire Of a strange black race.

I've always said I'm more influenced in what I do by artists, and how they work, how they think, and the freedom they're given to work and think, than I really am by other writers.

When once enthusiasm has been turned into ridicule, everything is undone except money and power.

I'm a really good person. I'm down to earth. I have a big heart. I have feelings. And I'm just like everybody else.

I've been so used to being supported by musicians, and I don't class myself as a particularly adept musician on instruments. I think I'm a songwriter.

Choas will come, calm will follow, and then it will start up all over again. The secret is to savor the ride.

And your very flesh shall be a great poem.