Most people are quiet in the world, and live in it tentatively, as if it were not their own.

The music of the Stones pounds the air like the amplified pulse of my erection.

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

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.

I like commas. I detest semi-colons — I don’t think they belong in a story. And I gave up quotation marks long ago. I found I didn’t need them, they were fly-specks on the page.

Anyone at any age is able to tell the story of his or her life with authority.

The voice of the Constitution is the inescapably solemn self-consciousness of the people giving the law unto themselves.