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.

All over the world today, not just in the totalitarian countries, assiduous functionaries in Ministries of Truth are clubbing history dumb and rendering language insensible.

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

I worry about images. Images are what things mean.

I did have a feeling then that the culture of factuality was so dominating that storytelling had lost all its authority.

Anyone at any age is able to tell the story of his or her life with authority.

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