I just try to make music that feels good to me, and hopefully it feels good to other people too.

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

You don't have to hold a position to be a leader.

There is no justice in love, no proportion in it, and there need not be.

I write because I have no other way to survive.

世界不是从他想象的地方运行的。不是从城堡的墙壁，而是从账房，不是由号角的呼唤，而是由算盘的点击，不是由大刀的磨擦和点击，而是由笔的刮擦。