We are the hero of our own story.

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

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Life is a system of recurrent pairs, the poison and the antidote being eternally packaged together by some considerate heavenly druggist.

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.

In violence we forget who we are.

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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.

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What I really do is take real plums and put them in an imaginary cake.

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

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