the great advantage of really contemporary fiction is that one finds oneself mirrored on every page

One can forgive Shakespeare anything, except one's own bad lines.

the great advantage of really contemporary fiction is that one finds oneself mirror on every page

Ouch! What are you doing, Karl, you broke my skull!

You have to read a book at the right time for you, and I am sure this cannot be insisted on too often, for it is the key to the enjoyment of literature.

I liken myself to someone who built the house he will live in one day and is preparing to furnish it.

Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but I had to stop going there when they started playing my music. It felt kinda awkward.

Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

I want to look back. To look over my shoulder and see the Stop sign with huge reflective letters, pleading with Hannah. Stop!

There is far greater peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.

Today will never happen again. Don't waste it with a false start or no start at all.

I don't interest myself that much.