Occupation: Novelist Birth: March 1, 1913 Death: April 16, 1994
Perhaps to lose a sense of where you are implies the danger of losing a sense of who you are..
I remember that I'm invisible and walk softly so as not awake the sleeping ones. Sometimes it is best not to awaken them; there are few things in the….
There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, he….
...and yet I am what they think I am..
We look too much to museums. The sun coming up in the morning is enough..
At best Americans give but a limited attention to history. Too much happens too rapidly, and before we can evaluate it, or exhaust its meaning or ple….
And while the ice was melting to form a flood in which I threatened to drown I awoke one afternoon to find that my first northern winter had set..
It goes a long way back, some twenty years. All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it wa….
Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those….
I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers..
I denounce because though implicated and partially responsible, I have been hurt to the point of abysmal pain, hurt to the point of invisibility. And….