“Don't be about just any life. Be about the life you want to be about.”

“Most people, including yourself, apparently, think The Moldau is about a river. It is not. It is a metaphor. It is about the progress of life, from its fragile beginnings through its joys and turbulence and on to its end, its magnificent end.”

“...there is something fluid about [packs] during the course of any individual manifestation. [p. 127]”

“The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation, and it seems most true when it eschews artistic devices of any sort.”

“Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well. Think about it.”

“...seizing and incorporating...There is nothing about us which is more strongly primitive. [p. 203]”

“That's the thing about trust; it's like love. You can't help who you trust or love sometimes - you just do - you can't turn it on and off when you want to.”