If he acts, if he doesn't, it's meaningless. The whole thing goes forward. No one is important. No one at all.
Jesse BallI like small books. I like durable books. I like plain books. I like small type and thin pages.
Jesse BallI have a very basic notion of the structure the book might have - that's mostly it. The rest is luck and happenstance.
Jesse BallโฆThere are times when something is asked of us, and we find we must do it. There is no calculation involved, no measure of the necessity of the thing itself, the action that must be performed. There is simply an acknowledgment that we will do the thing in question, and then the thing is done, often at considerable personal cost. " "What goes into these decisions? What tiny factors, invisible, in the jutting edges of personality and circumstance, contribute to this inevitability?
Jesse Ball