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 BallIt 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.
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 Ball