I think the pattern of my essays is, A funny thing happened to me on my way through Finnegans Wake. – Leslie Fiedler
My assignment is what every writers assignment is: tell the truth of his own time. – Leslie Fiedler

I think the pattern of my essays is, A funny thing happened to me on my way through Finnegans Wake. – Leslie Fiedler
My assignment is what every writers assignment is: tell the truth of his own time. – Leslie Fiedler
When I was 12 years old, someone took me to see Martha Graham. It was nothing like what I thought of as serious dancing and even then I knew I was having a great experience. It was as if somebody was moving through space like no one ever did before. – Leslie Fiedler
I think I have an inner confidence that my tastes are pretty simple, that what I find funny finds a wide audience. Im not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts. And Im certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions. – Rowan Atkinson