I didn't go through anyone's garbage. People brought what they felt I needed to know to me.
Comfort and solace come about differently for different people.
The truth is out there somewhere, but the dog needs to be walked.
Grammar, he saw, was agreement, community, consensus.
As a writer I'm not an explainer, really. I'm a narrator. I mistrust explanation.
Any good biography has to got to lead you to the work. Many biographers have started out in love with their subjects and ended up hating them.