Patricia Hampl

“Faith in our time can seem like signing on the dotted line of a prefab doctrine composed of absurdities.”

“You can’t put much on paper before you betray your secret self, try as you will to keep things civil.”

“Time, we like to say, cures all. But maybe the old saying doesn’t mean time heals. Time cures a secret in its brine, keeping it and finally, paradoxically, destroying it. Nothing is left in...”

“I don't write about what I know: I write in order to find out what I know.”