your concert-goer, though he feed upon symphony as a lamb upon milk, is no true lover if he play no instrument. Your true lover does more than admire the muse; he sweats a little in her service.

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.

It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us

Renew your mind more often by reading variety of books

...come lie beside me again and understand - the others can show by actions, but I alone will immortalize you in words...

It was a dark and stormy night. Suddenly a scream pierced the air'. . . . Good writing takes enormous concentration.

There is hardly anything that an ingenious mind cannot bring itself to doubt, granted sufficient industry and application.

Let this great maxim be my virtue's guide,- In part she is to blame that has been tried: He comes too near that comes to be denied.

Toronto is a very multicultural city, a place of immigrants, like my parents.

The neurotic usually obeys his own Golden Rule: Hate thy neighbor as thyself.

The moment of Jesus' greatest glory was on the cross, dying as our substitute.

I want to represent the idea that you really can make what you want I believe I can create whatever I want to create.