“unloved women have no biographies-- they have histories”

“He says unloved women have no biographies—they have histories.”

“Biography is the falsest of the arts.”

“Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.”

“There was never a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn't be. He is too many people if he's any good.”

“For a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder.”

“Women are necessarily capable of almost anything in their struggle for survival and can scarcely be convicted of such man-made crimes as “cruelty.”