“Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more tha...” — Virginia Woolf Quote

“Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders.”

“I often wish I'd got on better with your father,' he said.”

“For this moment, this one moment, we are together. I press you to me. Come, pain, feed on me. Bury your fangs in my flesh. Tear me asunder. I sob, I sob.”

“Not only was it enough to be a cover band, it was perhaps the highest calling. After all, if you could play music recorded by others, stay true to the original, and still add fire and flare, why not?”

“Respect is one of life's greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don't have that?”

“Cover the canvas at the first go, then work at it until you see nothing more to add.”