If he acts, if he doesn't, it's meaningless. The whole thing goes forward. No one is important. No one at all.

I'd say writing is easier for me now than it once was, but I do less of it.

A book can just be a description of a stick being snapped in half. If the reader is brought to feel the plight of the stick, well, you can imagine what that would be like.

It is at the heart of our human enterprise, that is to say, at the heart of society, to allow consensus a power it ought not to have.

I like small books. I like durable books. I like plain books. I like small type and thin pages.

I'm confused, and brilliant books help me to be less so.

The old man began to sing. His voice was very lovely and obviously a part of something that the world had disposed of in its haste, evidence of a grander, kinder past.