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

“We are the hero of our own story.”

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

“In violence we forget who we are.”

“What's the use of falling in love if you both remain inertly as you were?”

“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.”

“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.”