Writers had a way of redeeming everything that ever happens to them.
Is there any one of us who doesn’t want to strike back at all the evil in this world?
What if the drive to survive was a form of faith, a form of prayer?
...what was the good of being a movie werewolf? You howled at the moon; you couldn't remember what you did, and then somebody shot you.
The horror was this: the others.
Truth is a risky proposition. It's the nature of mediocre human beings to believe that lies are necessary, that they serve a purpose, that truth is subversive, that candor is dangerous, that the very scaffold of communal life is supported by lies.
First time my master’s in English literature ever proved useful.
You’re a mystery the way a sacrament is a mystery.
The highest truths a person could discover were rooted in the natural world.
In the story of the prince and the frog, there’s always a frog. This story ... it has no frog.
Everyone today has a story; the world’s an archive.
But Marchent, most journalists can’t be trusted. You do know that, don’t you?
Who has a right to tell me I have no gift, no talent, no passion ...' he murmured. 'Why do people say those things to you when youre young? Doesn't seem fair, does it?' 'No, darling, it's not fair,'she said. 'But the mystery is why you listen.
