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

What we call fiction is the ancient way of knowing, the total discourse that antedates all the special vocabularies....Fiction is democratic, it reasserts the authority of the single mind to make and remake the world.

Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.

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

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

Movies are too literal.

Satire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find in the purity of ridicule an inarguable moral truth.