"It's a brave new world."

“The way something looks or sounds is also what it means. Words as visual and aural phenomena, which mainly poets, not critics and prose writers, tend to be obsessed with. I think maybe I'm more of a curator than I am a writer in the strict sense because I am interested in how everything on the page, in a space, works together.”

Source : "https://logger.believermag.com/post/2013/10/24/true-lovers-are-as-rare-as-true-rebels". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. October 24, 2013.

“It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery.”

“I bet the worst part about dying is the part where your whole life passes before you.”

Source : "The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe". Play by Jane Wagner, 1985.

“There are enough high hurdles to climb, as one travels through life, without having to scale artificial barriers created by law or silly regulations.”

“Jazz, of course, is our heritage. Jazz is a culture, it's not a fad. It's up to us to see to it that it stays alive...”

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

“New Zealand is the only country I know well enough to write about. It can sometimes lead to complications.”

“I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something. I would box them into a corner with a badly formed question, and they didn't know how to get out of it. Now, I let them take me through it step by step, and I listen.”

“Power only tires those who don't exercise it.”