Much of my work has been done in first person.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Sunday was always the best of days for being the self you had intended to be, but were not, for one reason or another.