In searching for a way out of my own troubles, I had found my way into the troubles of others, some long gone, and now I was trying to find my way back out, through their troubles, as if we human beings can ever learn from one another.
Jesse BallAmericans are genuinely and profoundly anti-intellectual. They are especially so in their pleasure-seeking, which is epically banal.
Jesse BallI 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.
Jesse BallA book can just be a description of a stick being snapped in half. If the reader is brought to feel the plight of the stick, well, you can imagine what that would be like.
Jesse Ball