Autobiography is probably the most respectable form of lying.
Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography.
Autobiography at least saves a man or woman that the world is curious about from the publication of a string of mistakes called ‘Memoirs.’
Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders.
A memoir is an invitation into another person’s privacy.