The map had been the first form of misdirection, for what is a map but a way of emphasizing some things and making other things invisible?

Some questions will ruin you if you are denied the answer long enough.

I do believe very much in the idea of unexpected or "convulsive" beauty - beauty in the service of liberty.

Nothing that lived and breathed was truly objective—even in a vacuum, even if all that possessed the brain was a self-immolating desire for the truth.

What occurs after revelation and paralysis?

But what if you discover that the price of purpose is to render invisible so many other things?

I have received emails from readers who have said that they were emotionally impacted by the books, and they feel they are more environmentally aware and energized to do more. So that's hopeful to me. It is at least evidence of what I'm trying to do - trying to convey very intense emotional experiences by being very close in on character points of view to make you feel it in your body. That's one way to get the point across, by evoking a visceral response.