I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a new design.

What I really like to learn how to do is to build sentences that are equal to mental states.

When you're sure of what you're looking at, look harder.

Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind.

Reading is the last act of secular prayer.

All we can ever do is lay a word in the hands of those who have put one in ours.

The job of taste was to thin the insane torrent of human creativity down to manageable levels. But the job of appetite was never to be happy with taste.

I'd like, each time out as a writer, to reinvent who I am and what I'm doing. That's one of the great pleasures and rewards of the occupation.

I would say the flip side to my fascination with systems is a fascination with components. So many of my books are dialogues between little and big.

The use of music is to remind us how short a time we have a body.

Maybe happiness is like a virus. Maybe it's one of those bugs that sits for a long time, so we don't even know that we are infected.

Sadness flies on the wings of the morning, and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.

How sweet the words of Truth, breathed from the lips of Love.

No one will ever be as good at being you as you. So start there. Perfect is boring.

Daylight is too easy. What I want is difficult - the atmosphere of lamps and moonlight.

Early in my career, people wanted to hear music about protest, about trying to change things.

My parents had a normal life in Russia and they could have easily kept living a normal life, working and raising a child in Russia.

We must create the Georgia that our ancestors dreamed of, the Georgia that we dream of.

Rock 'n' roll was two pegs below being a prisoner of war back then.

I've played long enough to know that certain games are certain ways. You're gonna throw it less in others, more in others, and just look at what the team needs that day to win a football game.

Jumping through any hoop or taking advantage of any desperate situation that comes up just to sell a product is harmful. It is.