"I just want to make people happy. That's all I ever wanted to do with music."

"Writing is the art of listening to the whispers of the universe."

最大的风险就是不冒任何风险。在一个快速变化的世界里，唯一注定失败的策略就是不冒险。

"The past is never dead. It's not even past."

The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one... If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is worth any number of old ladies.