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.

I believe in discovering the love that exists and then trying to understand it. Not to invent a love and try to make it exist, but to find what does exist, and then to see what it is.

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

Much of my work has been done in first person.

I am clearer in my mind and a bit less confused than I used to be.

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.

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