Shock equals discovery, and if I narrated my past, you'd be pretty grossed out too, I bet - same as if you narrated yours. Aren't we all composed of …

- D. T. Max

The truth is out there somewhere, but the dog needs to be walked.

- D. T. Max

People are always invoking evolutionary psychology for everything. "Why do men hang around asking women out? Oh, to improve their reproductive succes…

- D. T. Max

I didn't go through anyone's garbage. People brought what they felt I needed to know to me.

- D. T. Max

As a writer I'm not an explainer, really. I'm a narrator. I mistrust explanation.

- D. T. Max

Comfort and solace come about differently for different people.

- D. T. Max

Any good biography has to got to lead you to the work. Many biographers have started out in love with their subjects and ended up hating them.

- D. T. Max

Grammar, he saw, was agreement, community, consensus.

- D. T. Max