As to why people like Joseph Lelyveld are writing memoirs, I think they're just catching on the coattails of the trend.

As to why people like Joseph Lelyveld are writing memoirs, I think they're just catching on the coattails of the trend.

We write out of revenge against reality, to dream and enter the lives of others.

Oh, save me God, but not quite yet.

Only friends will tell you the truths you need to hear to make your life bearable.

Lovers, children, heroes, none of them do we fantasize as extravagantly as we fantasize our parents.

Art is both a vengeance against reality and a reconciliation with it.