我
The present is always an unstable place, the past is where we think we know where we are.
History is not the past—it is the method we have evolved of organizing our ignorance of the past.
"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be."
"Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us."
"We are all the heroes of our own stories."
The past beats inside me like a second heart.
"History is not the story of strangers, aliens from another realm; it is the story of us had we been born a little earlier."
"The dead are never far from us. They're in our hearts and on our minds and in the end all that matters is love."
"The world begins at a kitchen table. No matter what, we must eat to live."
"We are all our own graveyards I believe; we squat amongst the tombs of the people we were."
Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.
I think the moment you stop learning, you stop being a writer.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero, but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
"The present is always invisible because it's environmental and we're fish."
"Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth."
"We carry our histories with us, in our bones and in our blood."
"Stories have the power to change how we see ourselves and others."
"The past is always present in the way we live now."