“Fiction is far more accurate than History when it comes to the human being.”

“I am a flawed human being - a far more flawed human being than you
realize.”

“I've always believed the lies we use to make our fictions reveal the truth with far more honesty than any history or herstory or life story.”

“The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.”

“Being in Washington is more fictional than being in Hollywood.”

“You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap about the end of history”

“Generals are, as a matter of course, allowed to be far more idiotic than ordinary human beings are permitted to be.”

“Human beings of any age need to approve of themselves; the bad times in history come when they cannot.”

“Human beings seem to be far more autonomous and self-governed than modern psychological theory allows for.”

“The capacity for imaginative reflex, for moral risk in any human being is not limitless; on the contrary, it can be rapidly absorbed by fictions, and thus the cry in the poem may come to sound louder, more urgent, more real than the cry in the street outside. The death in the novel may move us more potently than the death in the next room.”