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

There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.

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

We dress them [children] in the presumptions of the world. They are the bright small face of hope. They are the last belief we have, the belief in making them believe.

And though the newspapers called the shooting the Crime of the Century, Goldman knew it was only 1906 and there were ninety-four years to go.

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.

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