In talking about the past, we lie with every breath we draw.

If I had had to write only about imaginary people, I would have had to close up my typewriter. I wrote about my life in less and less disguise as I grew older, and finally with no disguise - except the disguise we create for ourselves, which is self-deception.

Your reader is at least as bright as you are

I am the cat that walks alone.

My father represented authority, which meant—to me—that he could not also represent understanding.

In talking about the past, we lie with every breath we draw.

It's deprivation that makes people writers, if they have it in them to be a writer.