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

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.

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

I'm confused, and brilliant books help me to be less so.

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

I don't read books for pleasure, but in desperation.

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.