Writing is a solitary business. It takes over your life. In some sense, a writer has no life of his own. Even when he’s there, he’s not really there.

Our lives carry us along in ways we cannot control, and almost nothing stays with us. It dies when we do, and death is something that happens to us every day.

To care about words, to have a stake in what is written, to believe in the power of books - this overwhelms the rest, and beside it one's life becomes very small.

People like me write because otherwise we are pretty inarticulate. Our articulation is our writing.

By heaven, I'll make a ghost of him that lets me.

The American president has a peculiar leadership responsibility to speak out for freedom.

As a child, as a teenager, I was kind of not allowed to wear fashionable clothes.

Health is actually the foundational tool to help us live the life.

Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes.

People have two sides, and a person first becomes appealing when you discover both of those sides - and worlds work exactly the same way.

The fact that there are awards and exhibitions and some people know who I am is just all gravy. I'm lucky to just work in an industry where I get to play so much.

I have my ship, and all her flags are a-flying. She is all that I have left, and music is her name.

Language betrays, in order to mean.