I became very successful at a young age... I had lots of opportunities and lots of power and had no idea how to focus it.
“All writers are liars. They twist events to suit themselves. They make use of their own tragedies to make a better story... They are terrible people.”
“I've known those pieces ever since I was about 16 or 17; I also at that time was taken to meet Charles Ives whom I got to know fairly well. He was the one who wrote a recommendation for me to get into college.”