There is a certain embarrassment about being a storyteller in these times when stories are considered not quite as satisfying as statements and statements not quite as satisfying as statistics; but in the long run, a people is known, not by its statements or its statistics, but by the stories it tells.

Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose (ed. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1969) - ISBN: 9781466829046