Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.

If you just go get one of these little fine arts degrees or writing program degrees, it never forces you to confront your responsibility as narrator, whereas any of the social sciences make you at look the interaction between the storyteller and story.

fiction is the great lie that tells the truth

I was born in 1949, and by the time I was 10, I figured out that my hope chest was not aimed in the same direction everybody else's was. And that life was going to be very, very complicated. And that I could either be provocative and declamatory, or shy, retiring and scared.

Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.

Beauty, my first girlfriend said to me, is that inner quality often associated with great amounts of leisure time.

I was born trash in a land where the people all believe themselves natural aristocrats.