Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.

Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.

I had always imagined that Cliché was a suburb of Paris, until I discovered it to be a street in Oxford.

The work of Henry James has always seemed divisible by a simple dynastic arrangement into three reigns: James I, James II, and the Old Pretender

Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium.

History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.

Biography, like big game hunting, is one of the recognized forms of sport, and it is as unfair as only sport can be.