"But for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short."

"I can always live by my pen."

"I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong."

"If I blow my nose, it gets written all over the world."

"Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope."

"I had to say to myself, Don't write the music. Let the music write itself."