If you visit the killing floor of a slaughterhouse, it will brand your soul for life.
History isn't what happened, history is just what historians tell us.
Very few of my characters are based on people I've known. It is too constricting.
Well, to be honest I think I tell less truth when I write journalism than when I write fiction.
Well, they each seem to do one thing well enough, but fail to realize that literature depends on doing several things well at the same time.
Grief reconfigures time, its length, its texture, its function: one day means no more than the next, so why have they been picked out and given separate names?
And that was all the part of it - the way you were obliged to live. You stifled a groan, you lied about your love, you deceived your legal wife, and all in the name of honour. That was the damned paradox of it - in order to behave well, you have to behave badly.
Any faith that must be supported by the evidence of the senses is not real faith.
Instruction is important.
When I hear of Schrödinger's cat, I reach for my pistol.
'Why risk?'" I responded. 'It should be, why not to risk?'