Most People Are Quiet In The World,

The Theory Of The Teacher With All These Immigrant Kids Was That If You Spoke English Loudly Enough They Would Eventually Understand.

I Did Have A Feeling Then That The Culture Of Factuality Was So Dominating That Storytelling Had Lost All Its Authority.

Facts Are The Images Of History, Just As Images Are The Facts Of Fiction.

It Was Evident To Him That The World Composed And Recomposed Itself Constantly In An Endless Process Of Dissatisfaction.

There Is Really No Fiction Or Non-fiction; There Is Only Narrative. One Mode Of Perception Has No Greater Claim On The Truth Than The Other; That The Distance Has Perhaps To Do With Distance - Narrative Distance - From The Characters; It Has To Do With The Kind Of Voice That Is Talking, But It Certainly Hasn't To Do With The Common Distribution Between Fact And Imagination.