I can walk into a bookstore and hand over my credit card and they don't know who the hell I am. Maybe that says something about bookstore clerks.

There is really no fiction or non-fiction; there is only narrative. One mode of perception has no greater claim on the truth than the other; that the distance has perhaps to do with distance - narrative distance - from the characters; it has to do with the kind of voice that is talking, but it certainly hasn't to do with the common distribution between fact and imagination.

Movies are too literal.

It was evident to him that the world composed and recomposed itself constantly in an endless process of dissatisfaction.

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.

The three most important documents a free society gives are a birth certificate, a passport, and a library card.

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