Only friends will tell you the truths you need to hear to make your life bearable.

We write out of revenge against reality, to dream and enter the lives of others.

One learns much more by writing fiction, because the insights come from those deeper subconscious levels where the greater and more interesting truths lie.

Americans and their desire to be novelists, the American novel should be listed in medical dictionaries alongside Megalomania and Obsessional Neuroses.

Why are there no great women artists?' sounds as ignorant of human geography as the query 'Why are there no Eskimo tennis teams?

I shall never cease to marvel at the way we beg for love and tyranny.

All our parents have levels of deviousness. We're driven to write about this discrepancy between the bright shining selves they invented and the monsters lurking underneath.

Art is both a vengeance against reality and a reconciliation with it.

I venture that those of us who are most serene when faced with the possibility of nothingness are the ones who've reached furthest to the downward and upward of their beings.

As to why people like Joseph Lelyveld are writing memoirs, I think they're just catching on the coattails of the trend.

one forgives parents as naturally as one emancipates oneself from them - usually shortly afterward.

Reasoning with a drunkard is likeGoing under water with a torch to seek for a drowning man.

The liberty of the press is not confined to newspapers and periodicals. It necessarily embraces pamphlets and leaflets.

It turns out we get so much healthier when we convert to a green energy economy that our health savings alone are enough to pay for the cost of the energy transition.

I like putting a lot of personal touches in the music.

You never know what someone is dealing with behind closed doors. You only know what you see or what you think you see.

I think Channel One was very integral in my career.

Love seeks a guerdon; friendship is as God,Who gives and asks no payment.

What matters is how quickly you do what your soul directs.

Certain directors are known for a certain kind of beauty; it becomes their signature.

Only a true friend would be that truly honest.