"The White Album" Quotes

We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images, by the 'ideas' with which we have learned to freeze the shifting phantasmagoria which is our actual experience.

The apparent pointlessness of small observations suggests that perhaps one can learn nothing from everything.

I am talking here about a time when I began to doubt the premises of all the stories I had ever told myself, a common condition but one I found troubling.

The only possible motive for writing is the desire to communicate, and all writing is communication: the writer may call his work 'art' but his readers must call it 'communication'.

I am not telling you this story in the hope that you will understand me better, I am telling it in the hope that you will understand yourselves better.

In short: I want to be where I am when I'm there.

Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what we think we remember.

It occurred to me that I was working from the same given as Nelson Rockefeller, that is, using the same map.

We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not.

I was meant to know the things one knows, and I was meant to write them down, and I was meant to get them right.