I want to say less, and it's easier to say less.

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

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.

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.

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

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

A beginning idea for a book might be: a boy emerges from a hole in the ground. He enters a house. The book will take place in the first ten minutes following his arrival.