“My feeling is, when you are writing an essay, you don't make anything ...” — Siri Hustvedt Quote

“My feeling is, when you are writing an essay, you don't make anything up. This may be a very Protestant notion, and I'm aware of the fact that memory is fallible, that if I had access to films or some absolute documentary evidence of what happened, it might look different; we get confused and fuzzy.”

“Sigmund Freud makes people irritable. Whenever someone mentions Freud, say, at a dinner party, I see eyes roll and listen to the nasty remarks that follow.”

“Our great cultural error is to assume that 'truth' arrives only through reductive theories.”

“I can easily lose myself emotionally in absolute Hollywood garbage.”

“Birth on U.S. territory has never been an absolute claim to citizenship.”

“I was sick of being articulate and loud and charming. I didn't want to play that guy anymore. I wanted to play the absolute opposite of that.”