There is that great proverb — that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.

Privilege, you see, is one of the great adversaries of the imagination; it spreads a thick layer of adipose tissue over our sensitivity.

There is no story that is not true.

I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.

The triumph of the written word is often attained when the writer achieves union and trust with the reader, who then becomes ready to be drawn into unfamiliar territory, walking in borrowed literary shoes so to speak, toward a deeper understanding of self or society, or of foreign peoples, cultures, and situations.

Writers don't give prescriptions. They give headaches!

When a mad man walks naked, it is his kinsmen who feel shame, not himself.