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.

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

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

As far as ideas about book design: I have plenty. But I also try and let people do their jobs.

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

I'm an elephant today. I will need to have lots of room and also a bowl of water on the floor.