For me, a paragraph in a novel is a bit like a lin... -Paul Auster

For me, a paragraph in a novel is a bit like a line in a poem. It has its own shape, its own music, its own integrity.

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There's hope for everyone. That's what makes the world go round....
I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of spilled out i...
I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come back, I needed some breathing room. ...
Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality as carefully as I can....
The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we are, in s...
For me, a paragraph in a novel is a bit like a line in a poem. It has its own shape, its own music, its own integrity....
I'm living in the present, thinking about the past, hoping for the future....
We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves, eager to listen to the next...
Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever....
There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads....

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Music was very influential on me as a kid....
At one time, I was persuaded to want to make music, and people answered me that that was not possible....
Music is where my love is. I don't think the acting thing is going to start outweighing that, but I think it's going to start being a good chunk of so...
When you get to your teenage years, you want to find something that you identify with. It's almost a slight rebellion; you don't want to listen to wha...
Because it's so easy to medicate our need for self-worth by pandering to win followers, 'likes' and view counts, social media have become the metier o...
Music is an emotional experience, and that is what imprints itself on the soul. And I think for me, any great art is art which communicates human emot...
I just passed my identification crisis and came back to country music....
People always accuse me of being motivational in a way, like it was a bad thing, but that's just how I was raised. My mom raised me in a positive envi...
When music is allowed to take the place of devotion and prayer, it is a terrible curse. Young people assemble together to sing, and, although professe...
We've always said Psychic TV's music is the sum total of who's in it at the time....