I have many questions, but no patience to think them through.

My workspace is defined by books, ephemera, quiet and light. I don't have a computer, telephone or a fax machine there.

What protects you in this world from sadness and from the loss of an ability to do something? ... Work and love.

Everyone I know is looking for solace, hope and a tasty snack.

A visit to a museum is a search for beauty, truth, and meaning in our lives. Go to museums as often as you can.

Flowers lead to books, which lead to thinking and not thinking and then more flowers and music, music. Then many more flowers and many more books.

I like the brooding man - a brooding man with a sense of humor.

if something does go wrong, here is my advice... KEEP CALM and CARRY ON.

Go out and walk. That is the glory of life.

In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that.

Wonderful things happen when your brain is empty.

There is no fear in love. Live with the foundation of LOVE in your heart and you will become FEARLESS.

I never presumed that a technique of composition or an idea was so special that just using it would guarantee the quality of the music.

As a novelist, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories and I give them money.

When you translate the American writers who are best with dialogue into German - someone like Elmore Leonard, or Tom Wolfe, who's also quite good with dialogue. It's very hard to translate them well.

We reject President Donald Trump's view. It was a mistake to say that 'the Islamic world divided into "good" and "evil"', a major wrongdoing.

To know how to produce a work of art is to know how to discard the extraneous.

Passion is the degree of difficulty we are willing to endure to accomplish the goal.

If we are to learn to improve the quality of the decisions we make, we need to accept the mysterious nature of our snap judgments.

O, when it comes to faith, what a living, creative, active, powerful thing it is. It cannot do other than good at all times. It never waits to ask whether there is some good work to do.

I probably have a higher opinion of my writing than the average person, at least when I'm in a good mood, but I don't really think of my plays as only being relevant to a particular month or year.