Clarity is the most important thing to me - in thinking - and so I try in the books to be as clear as possible.

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

I begin with an image of some sort, just as if you saw something out of a window, and then went to the window to see what it was.

I don't start with an idea or concept in the sense that I flesh out an idea or concept and set it at the center of something.

Not that believing such things has anything to do with whether they are true. You see that, don't you?

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

Different times and different structures make more sense at one point in life than at another.