“The best ideas will eat at you for days, maybe even weeks, until something, some incident, some impulse, triggers you to finally express them.”

“A writer is one who communicates ideas and emotions people want to communicate but aren’t quite sure how, or even if, they should communicate them.”

“I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.”

“I quote others only in order the better to express myself.”

“Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.”

“Because I trust in the ever-changing climate of the heart. (At least, today I feel that way.) I think it is necessary to have many experiences for the sake of feeling something; for the sake of being challenged, and for the sake of being expressive, to offer something to someone else, to learn what we are capable of.”

“He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.”