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

If Americans are to read something that is difficult, they will only do so supposing they will be admired for having done it.

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

I don't think anything needs to happen in a book.

First, he says, you have to go out into the world. This is not a simple matter of going outside one's door. No, that is simply going out. That's what one does when one is on the way to the store to buy a loaf of bread, some cheese, and a bottle of wine. When one goes out into the world, one is shedding preconceptions of past paths and ideas of past paths, and trying to move freely through an unsubstantiated and new geography.

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

Three things are required of you: the wishes you made when you first knew the breadth of this life; the contract you signed when you decided your wishes were not true or possible; and the exacting of the punishment you agreed to when you knew you would break the contract of your life.