“We need falsifications to make the past inhabitable.”
“The job of the writer is to take a close and uncomfortable look at the world they inhabit, the world we all inhabit, and the job of the novel is to make the corpse stink.”
“We are all exiles from our past , and, as such, we need to recapture it.”
“Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.”
“We protect the past. And the way I see it, that means we need to understand it.”
“We need the courage to learn from our past and not live in it.”