The images of things are not the things in themselves.

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

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.

Every major work of art is a transgression, but the artist is not necessarily, by nature, a transgressor.

The theory of the teacher with all these immigrant kids was that if you spoke English loudly enough they would eventually understand.

It proposed that human beings, by the act of making witness, warranted times and places for their existence other than the time and place they were living through.

It may be that the most avid readers of new fiction in America today are film producers, an indication of the trouble were in.