I believe in the power of love and music to heal.

Beauty is not an end in itself, but the result of a perfect solution to a problem.

To name something is to bring it into existence, to give it a place in the world.

Every book is a journey the writer takes alone first.

Ah, my Beloved, fill the Cup that clears TO-DAY of past Regrets and future Fears: To-morrow!—Why, To-morrow I may be Myself with Yesterday's Sev'n thousand Years.

I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so since I'm so dim and they're so smart, let them decide what it is or it isn't.