"Since I tend to write chronologically, the middle is always the place where the process is most taxing."

“Just because I'm a recording artist doesn't mean I'm not an artist. Because I had to grow.”

“It's an extremely good thing that money sometimes changes hands.”

“I really want to be governor when I have a partner in the White House.”

“I had also underestimated what an abundance of information can be extracted from contemporary newspapers, even information that bore directly on Kafka's life. In this way it was possible to complete the volume about the early years; and, in my view, nothing substantial is missing from it.”

“People who are knowledgeable about poetry sometimes discuss it in that knowing, rather hateful way in which oenophiles talk about wine: robust, delicate, muscular. This has nothing to do with how most of us experience it, the heart coming around the corner and unexpectedly running into the mind. Of all the words that have stuck to the ribs of my soul, poetry has been the most filling.”

“Real life doesn't have to be convincing, but fiction does.”

“Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“The Japanese invaded Tulagi, in the Solomon Islands, on May 4.”