History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past

Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.

If every event which occurred could be given a name, there would be no need for stories.

Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.

Words are so often used in the opposite sense, as a screen of diversion. It's the struggle towards truthfulness which is the same whether one is writing a poem, a novel or an argument.

[O]ften art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten. . . .

Advertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always being used to make the same general proposal