Don't you just love New Year's? You can start all over. Everybody gets a second chance.

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

"The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties."

Music is the language of the world, without borders.

"I write to destroy the world, but I always end up creating it."

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.