Whatever you describe to another person is also a revelation of who you are and who you think you are. You can not describe anything without betrayin… - James Baldwin

You can not describe anything without betraying your point of view, your aspirations, your fears, your hopes.

Love was a country he knew nothing about.

I know that people can be better than they are. We are capable of bearing a great burden, once we discover that the burden is reality and arrive where reality is.

I began plotting novels at about the time I learned to read. The story of my childhood is the usual bleak fantasy, and we can dismiss it with the restrained observation that I certainly would not consider living it again.