You don't want your neurosurgeon to have doubts about the meaning of it all while he or she is operating on your brain.
Aleksandar HemonPolitics imagined as direct agency, whether by voting or by participating in politics, you can think you're not political because you don't do anything between elections.
Aleksandar HemonI recognized him then; that is, I finally comprehended what I had known but had never been able to formulate: he had always been complete. He had finished the work of becoming himself, long before any of us could even imagine such a feat was possible.
Aleksandar HemonI long for, not a writer's retreat - I can write in any situation - but a reader's retreat.
Aleksandar Hemon