Well, I think everything I've ever read contributes to the background from which I write.

Truth" is contained in the preconceptions of him who seeks to define it. Any organization of ideas whatever presupposes a judgment on the world.

I'd never been published when I was young.

I never worked in an office in my life.

Well, I think everything I've ever read contributes to the background from which I write.

I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.

This is no science, this is art, where equations fall away to elements like resolving chords, and where always prevails a symmetry either explicit or multiplex, but always of a crystalline serenity.