Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

Things that appear on the front page of the newspaper as 'fact' are far more dangerous than the games played by a novelist, and can lead to wars.

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

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

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

And so the ordinary unendurable torments we all experienced were indeed exceptional in the way they were absorbed in each heart.

Dad is always hiding in his book.