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.

The books turn out to be about things afterwards. I don't go into them with concepts, for the most part.

We tire differently if we love or love not.

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

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.

Much of my work has been done in first person.

One can't say how one behaved or why, really. Such situations, they are far more complex than any either/or proposition. It is simplistic to produce events in pairs and lean them against each other like cards. I suppose if you a playing go or shogi, then such a thing might be helpful, but that is not life.