A bad handwriting is as annoying to a reader … as an irritating voice is to a listener.

A tapping foot isn’t the best a listener can get from a song: A good song makes a listener dance. A great song makes him think.

I don't have pet peeves like some people. I have whole kennels of irritation.

To increase the chances of a writer trying to kill themselves, cut off their hands.

Some artists benefit less from being interviewed than they do from being left alone.

By now he had learned enough to know that when he was getting annoyed at somebody else, it was usually because there was something that he himself should be doing, and he wasn't doing it.