Writers write about what worries them.

All of us are better when we're loved.

No one has ever said that life is to be easy. Only that it is to be lived.

Perhaps it is better to have a place to go to that you hate than to have no place at all.

I like to think that I am telling a story rather than writing it.

A Fiddle for Angus is a charming tale. This is a very fine book.

Indiscriminate use among unintelligent leads to chaos.

I just think that sports movies have such a built-in visceral, rooting interest, an epic win or lose redemptive quality. When they get it right, it can make for a really rousing movie experience.

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.

I want everything, no matter what concept or genre, to feel real, because it is real. I want to keep making real music, I hope people remember me for that, that's a good thing to be remembered for.

I write because I must. It's not a choice or a pastime, it's an unyielding calling and my passion.

The crowd doesn't give a crap as long as you bring the money in.

A society must assume that it is stable, but the artist must know, and he must let us know, that there is nothing stable under heaven.

Music is indeed the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

To the eye of enmity virtue appears the ugliest blemish.

Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world.