In searching for a way out of my own troubles, I had found my way into the troubles of others, some long gone, and now I was trying to find my way back out, through their troubles, as if we human beings can ever learn from one another.

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

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.

We tire differently if we love or love not.

I believe my friends think I'm funny. All the books are full of humor. Maybe it is a quiet sort of humor that masquerades as not-much-at-all. It is certainly easy to miss.

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'm clearer now in what I want to say, and I know better how to say just that.