"I became a writer when I began to take it seriously."

"He who improvises can never make a perfect line of poetry."

"What’s really interesting about music and the audience, whether that’s a soundtrack audience or a listening…"

"All words at every level of prose and poetry and all devices of language and speech derive their meaning fr…"

"Time-travel has a uniquely intimate, and seductively morbid, relationship to both fiction and history, beca…"

"I hoped I might become a debonair, hard-drinking, poetic Irishman like him. I'd be a New York character. I'…"

"Each one writes history according to his convenience."