Memory changes as a person matures.

There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition.

We chart delusions through collective agreement.

Great books are the ones that are urgent, life-changing, the ones that crack open the reader’s skull and heart.

The truth is that personality inevitably bleeds into all forms of our intellectual life. We all extrapolate from our own lives in order to understand the world.

Writing fiction is like remembering what never happened.

The old story is true:Women have to be less emotional than men.