A novelist is a person who lives in other people's skins.

History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.

The poem is a cry of the unborn heart. Yes, because the poem perfectly embodies the world, there is no world without poem.

I did have a feeling then that the culture of factuality was so dominating that storytelling had lost all its authority.

We are all good friends. Friendship is what endures. Shared ideals, respect for the whole character of a human being.

I am led to the proposition that there is no fiction or nonfiction as we commonly understand the distinction: there is only narrative.

It proposed that human beings, by the act of making witness, warranted times and places for their existence other than the time and place they were living through.