The purpose of fiction is to take you out of your own life and make you aware of other lives.

To be a writer is to acknowledge the secret wounds that we carry inside us, the ones that never heal and that define who we are.

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Every song has its own personality.

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.