I Tend To Follow A Scattershot Approach

The Thing About Inspiration Is That It Takes Your Mind Off Everything Else.

I Sometimes Seem To Myself To Wander Around The World Merely Accumulating Material For Future Nostalgias.

Good Music Is Good Music, But It Has To Be Good.

It Is Exciting To Write About The Present Once One Gets Beyond The Trivia Of The Moment. As A Time To Live In, As A Time To Think About, The Present Is Intriguing.

Those Books Of Mine That Are Remunerative - I'm Not Talking About Poetry Here - Take Years To Write, And I Am Never Sure They'll Be Successful. So Writing Is A Risk In More Senses Than One.