The historian will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like.

Poems have ideas. The ideas of poems come out of their emotions and their emotions are carried on images.

And so do people pass out of one's life and all you can remember of them is their humanity, a poor fitful thing of no dominion, like your own.

The historian will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like.

I've always felt, as a writer, that radicals are fascinating because they're relations, they have a place in the American family. They're the relatives everyone wishes would go away. They're the embarrassments to decorum and good taste.

We're always attracted to the edges of what we are, out by the edges where it's a little raw and nervy.

The theory for admitting accomplice testimony that is uncorroborated is that conspiracy is by its nature secretive and that only the parties to it can know it occurred. But in practice this means the accomplice's guilt is modified to the degree that he can convict the defendant.