Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

Chamber music - a conversation between friends.

For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.

Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind.

Writing is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living.

What the writer needs is an empty day ahead.

Biographers, by their very nature, want to know everything about everybody, dead or alive.

History is, in its essence, exciting; to present it as dull is, to my mind, stark and unforgivable misrepresentation.

Artists often think they are going to die before their time. They seem to possess a heightened sense of the passing of the hours.

If art has a purpose, it is to interpret life, reproduce it in fresh visions.

In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink, the facts printed in black ink.

I'm really getting better at guitar. I'm not trapped behind a piano. You can get out and move with a guitar and still direct the band.

This is the extent of his knowledge of the sea: it was very big, it was salty, and fish lived there.

I don't think that the economy can absorb a massive flow of immigration that does not relate to the issue of persecution.

I think bullfights are for men who aren't very brave and wish they were.

No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion.

I was that overachieving, annoying kid who was always trying to win some contest or win the role. I look back on it now and I'm like, "Chill, man." Calm down.

Let excellence be your brand... When you are excellent, you become unforgettable.

It's a little dangerous for me to get outside myself and think about how I want people to see me.

I am falser than vows made in wine.