A novelist is a person who lives in other people's skins.
Time seems to me a drift, a shifting of sand. And my mind is shifting with it. I am wearing away.
Facts are the images of history, just as images are the facts of fiction.
Stories distribute the suffering so that it can be borne.
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.
The voice of the Constitution is the inescapably solemn self-consciousness of the people giving the law unto themselves.