The force of truth that a statement imparts, then, its prominence among the hordes of recorded observations that I may optionally apply to my own life, depends, in addition to the sense that it is argumentatively defensible. . .
Source: U And I: A True Story, ch. 4 (1991).
-- Nicholson Baker, (Jan 7 1957-____), US novelist, writer; His fiction works include A Box of Matches, and Room Temperature.