I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.

I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.

I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.

Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life.

I don't write books inadvertently.

I had lost faith in biography.

I think one of the very frightening things about the regime of the National Socialists is that it made people happy.