If by reaction you mean critical reaction, I was confident that we were putting out a quality book [ Treachery]. So I was reasonably sure that we'd g….

I'm open to working anywhere, but not on anything..

Writing has always had a tactile quality for me. It's a physical experience..

Music has the power to transcend your physical being and take you up. Because music has a metaphysical quality it really makes your life beautiful..

There are times when quantity is at least as important as quality in learning an art..

Learned or unlearned we all must be scribbling..

Even from when Lionel Messi was very young I could see that he was a great player. A lot of people spoke about him, and then when I saw him myself fo….

The rewards of art are not always commensurate with its quality. It affords a precarious living..

How can you live in the Northeast?.

I don't go where I'm tolerated. I go where I'm celebrated..

I like to do something I fear..

The things which must be must be for the best..

New landscape of personal media has given us a vaster wasteland of cyberspace. But, luckily for us, there's some really wonderful stuff in it. And if….

Seek and you shall find the repulsive things you secretly hope to find..

One must as willingly be nothing, as something..

I'm only interested in poetry..

the history of melancholia includes all of us..

When I knew nothing, I thought I could do anything..

We never are definitely right, we can only be sure we are wrong..

All the physical comes from the mental..

How I like to be liked, and what I do to be liked!.