A Book Begins As A Private Excitement

There Is Really No Fiction Or Non-fiction; There Is Only Narrative. One Mode Of Perception Has No Greater Claim On The Truth Than The Other; That The Distance Has Perhaps To Do With Distance - Narrative Distance - From The Characters; It Has To Do With The Kind Of Voice That Is Talking, But It Certainly Hasn't To Do With The Common Distribution Between Fact And Imagination.

There Is No Longer Any Such Thing As Fiction Or Nonfiction; There's Only Narrative.

I Have Been Everywhere Because I Don't Know What I'm Looking For.

Most People Are Quiet In The World, And Live In It Tentatively, As If It Were Not Their Own.

And So Do People Pass Out Of One's Life And All You Can Remember Of Them Is Their Humanity, A Poor Fitful Thing Of No Dominion, Like Your Own.