We are defined more by what we hide than what we show. - John Banville

"We are defined more by what we hide than what we show."

John Banville Truth

Novelist Irish Born 1945 (age 81)

More from John Banville

"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."

"Memory is a form of forgetting."

"We are all wanderers on this earth."

"Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth."

"Lucy, you got some 'splainin' to do!"

"You must always be honest with the people you love."

"Truth always comes out in the end."

"Honesty is always the best policy."