"Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self."

"Reminiscences, even extensive ones, do not always amount to an autobiography. [...] For even if months and years appe…"

"A man's memory is bound to be a distortion of his past in accordance with his present interests, and the most faithfu…"

"Autobiographies tell more lies than all but the most self-indulgent fiction."

"An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing."

"All autobiography is self-indulgent."

"I don't think anybody should write his autobiography until after he's dead."

"An autobiography is only 'a sort of life' – it may contain less errors of fact than a biography, but it is of necessi…"

"Autobiography is now as common as adultery and hardly less reprehensible."

"All fiction may be autobiography, but all autobiography is of course fiction."