Find what it is you love to do and do it well. Make the world a better place.
. . . They cannot escape their history any more than you yourself can lose your shadow.
Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you.
The past is always tense, the future perfect.
Don’t romanticise your ‘vocation’. You can either write good sentences or you can’t. There is no ‘writer’s lifestyle’. All that matters is what you leave on the page.
Time is how you spend your love.
Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.
There are lots of people who cannot think seriously without injuring their minds.
To stay or to go, it amounted to the same thing.
Don Quixote thought he could have made beautiful bird-cages and toothpicks if his brain had not been so full of ideas of chivalry. Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
I think music can definitely be art; I also think music can be crap and not be art.