I will go to the garden. I will be a romantic. I will sell myself in hell, in heaven also I will be.

The awful thing, as a kid reading, was that you came to the end of the story, and that was it. I mean, it would be heartbreaking that there was no more of it.

What has happened makes the world. Live on the edge, looking.

What a great thing! To be a writer! Words are something you can carry in your head. You can really 'travel light.'

I know this body is impatient. I know I constitute only a meager voice and mind. Yet I loved, I love. I want no sentimentality. I want no more than home.

The pattern of the narrative never of necessity wants to end, it never has to.

I heard words and words full of holes aching.

For love - I would split open your head and put a candle in behind the eyes.

Writing is the same as music. It’s in how you phrase it, how you hold back the note, bend it, shape it, then release it. And what you don’t play is as important as what you do say.

Communication is mutual feeling with someone, not a didactic process of information.

Suddenly the whole imagination of writing and editorial and newspaper and all these presumptions about who am I reading this, and who else other people may be, and all that, it's so grimly brutal!

Just as food is fuel for the body, books are fuel for the mind.

My father...was a man who understood all dogs thoroughly and treated them like human beings.

It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have frequently been forged in cases involving not very nice people.

There aren't many downsides to being rich, other than paying taxes and having relatives asking for money. But being famous, that's a 24 hour job right there.

Take time to smell the roses. Appreciating the little things in life really can make all the difference.

At the start, I had no idea to go into fashion, because I thought people would think I was stupid. I don't worry about those things anymore.

When you play with someone you can feel the chemistry with, just the first show is already magic.

He is now rising from affluence to poverty.

Every band wants to go believe me, not everybody makes it, but they want to.

Women's voices not being heard is the root of many of the problems of the world.