"To know whom to write for is..." - Quote by Virginia Woolf

“Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.”

“At one and the same time, therefore, society is everything and society is nothing. Society is the most powerful concoction in the world and society has no existence whatsoever”

“I like to have space to spread my mind out in.”

“Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.”

“My mind turned by anxiety, or other cause, from its scrutiny of blank paper, is like a lost child–wandering the house, sitting on the bottom step to cry.”

“I write 2,000 words a day when I write. It sometimes takes three hours, it sometimes takes five hours.”

“When you walk out onstage in front of 65,000 people, it can bring you to tears.”

“That's always disappointed me, to see a guy in the crowd who doesn't look like he's having fun but in general if you just listen to the crowd it sounds like they're having fun. So I don't want to focus on the one guy who's not having fun. And by closing my eyes and just listening, I can't hear that he's not laughing but I can see that he's not laughing.”

“You gotta make sure the listener is listening to you, so if you put it into a song, often times, if the song is striking enough, then you can really deliver the story most effectively while keeping the ear of the listener the whole time.”