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

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

A writer of books has to admit that film is the enemy, and that in my case I have been sleeping with the enemy.

We make a mistake to condescend to the past as if it were preparatory to our own time.

Implications of treason are fed like cubes of sugar to the twelve-headed animal which is justice. In ... opening remarks. In the way questions are asked. In support of lines of questioning where cases of treason are cited and the Judge endorses the relevance of the citation.

Communists have no respect for people, only for positions.

When I'm writing, I like to seal everything off and face the wall, not to look outside the window. The only way out is through the sentences.