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

“She considered [her] life, which had not been a life but only a sort of greeting, a Hello There.”

“In violence we forget who we are.”

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

“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.”

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

“You can date the evolving life of a mind, like the age of a tree, by the rings of friendship formed by the expanding central trunk.”