Adam Gopnik Quotes

Of All The Alchemies Of Human Connection-sex And Childbirth And Marriage And Friendship-the Strangest Is This: You Can Stand Up And Tell A Story That Is Made Entirely, Embarrassingly, Of "I's," And A Listening Audience Somehow Turns Each "I" Into A "me." This Alchemy, Of Self-absorption Into Shared Experience, Is The Alchemy Of All Literature.

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