"Hinske with your best shot!*"

"I used to be obsessed with this idea that odd numbers are masculine and even ones are feminine. So I wrote …"

"Motives do not concern me; they are a dangerous subject with which to deal."

"A wolf was no less a wolf because a whim of chance caused him to run with the watch-dogs."

"He would be the finer gentleman that should leave the world without having tasted of lying or pretence of a…"

"I'm not tempted to write a song about George W. Bush. I couldn't figure out what sort of song I would write…"

"When we were in the woods beyond Gowbarrow park we saw a few daffodils close to the water side…At last unde…"