“In violence we forget who we are.”

“A novelist is an elephant, but an elephant who must pretend to forget.”

“We are the hero of our own story.”

“We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words you are the hero of your own story.”

“There are no new truths, but only truths that have not been recognized by those who have perceived them without noticing.”

“Every word she writes is a lie, including ‘and’ and ‘the’."(on Lillian Hellman)”

“I really tried, or so I thought, to avoid lying, but it seemed to me that they forced it on me by the difference in their vision of things, so that I was always transposing reality for them into something they could understand.”