The lessons one learns at school are not always the ones the school thinks it's teaching. - Salman Rushdie

A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.

I fell victim to the temptation of every autobiographer, to the illusion that since the past exists only in one's memories and the words which strive vainly to encapsulate them, it is possible to create past events simply by saying they occurred.

...in autobiography, as in all literature, what actually happened is less important than what the author can manage to persuade his audience to believe