"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."

"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."

"I think that some of our truths are things that are not dealt with in standard autobiography. I think that dreams are…"

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