Le livre est un morceau de silence dans les mains du lecteur. Celui qui écrit se tait. Celui qui lit ne rompt pas le silence.

most of us, as we undergo the growing up process, do not get what we want or even what we should. We get what we have, and no more, and we find out how to make what we have work for us.

I can take more punishment than anyone in the business.

Trust your landmark and run through the smoke. It's going to open up eventually.

The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really feel and what you really think.

The Bible isn't a choose your own adventure book where everyone can just make up their own meaning.

Slow down. Stop trying to do everything now, now, now. Hold up the people behind you for all you care, feel them kicking at your heels but maintain your pace. Don't let anybody dictate your speed.

It reminded me of that tongue-in-cheek quick history of art I'd overheard...Used to be people couldn't draw very well, then they could, and now they can't again.

I'm Australian. I'm assimilated. I was born here - how ocker do I have to be?

In the past, so many of my records, really, have been sketches for records that never really got made.

Contempt is a kind of gangrene which, if it seizes one part of a character, corrupts all the rest by degrees.