"My mom says that my dad coerced me into choosing the cello. He says that's not entirely true. I don't remember; I was three."

“I'd like to get my public image nearer to my reality. People have a lot of misconceptions.”

“It took me six novels before I felt confident of my voice as a writer,”

“It seems to me that the best work I've done - and maybe this is something other people can identify with - was because it was an end in itself. It was something other than making ends meet, it was an escape from all that.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com

“Your sins are great? Just tell the Lord: Forgive me, help me to get up again, change my heart!”

“A thirsty ambition for truth and virtue, and a frenzy to conquer all lies and vices which are not recognized as such nor desire to be; herein consists the heroic spirit of the philosopher.”

Source : "Socratic Memorabilia". Book by Johann Georg Hamann, 1967.

“I've forgotten more about music than I ever knew.”

“Well, I've got something to tell you, In my last life I was a Spanish Count and one of the things I loved to do when I was a count in Spain was take all the commoners, line them up against a wall and throw rocks at them, being a professional hockey goalie is punishment for my bad habits in past lives..”

“If the entire world sought to make itself worthy of happiness rather than make itself happy, then the entire world would be happy.”