A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
See things as they are and write about them. Don?t waste your creative energy trying to make things up. Even if you are writing fiction, write the things you see and know.
I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.