I really like science because it seems to be that place where you get the big picture, everything connects.

I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a new design.

The desire to live in our imagination is driven by this suspicion that we're disembodied sensibilities cobbled into our bodies. That idea has infused most of human thought since the very beginning.

The thing that makes reading and writing suspect in the eyes of the market economy is that it's not corrupted.

Only keep still, wait, and hear, and the world will open.

I would say the flip side to my fascination with systems is a fascination with components. So many of my books are dialogues between little and big.

All we can ever do is lay a word in the hands of those who have put one in ours.