...but it is good to be several floors up in the dead of night wondering whether you are any good or not and the only decision you can make is that you did it...

… and I’ll be happy here and happy there, fullof tea and tears

… my words are lovewhich willfully parades inits room, refusing to move.

willow trees, willow trees they remind me of DesdemonaI'm so damned literaryand at the same time the waters rushing past remindme of nothing

He who is born of God, overcomes the world

If theres a sustainable job that will create sustainable value, people will hire for it.

I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that does not have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular.

If Beethoven is a prodigy of man, Bach is a miracle of God.

I'm from the Delbert Home for the Unusual.

Towns were the nursery of freedom.

I think of a book and a play, or a book and a movie, as two separate things - I don't think of it as my novel having a new life.

Johnny Depp is, to me, a rare kindred spirit with like sensibilities, who has escaped the beast. He's probably one of the few people that have survived Los Angeles as a human being.

I'm from a middle class family. I didn't grow-up rich, but I didn't grow-up poor. Each guy has to stick to his own story.

I know the world expects me to have superpowers, and it'll be quite a disappointment. But I just play myself.