First, he says, you have to go out into the world. This is not a simple matter of going outside one's door. No, that is simply going out. That's what….

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

I like small books. I like durable books. I like plain books. I like small type and thin pages..

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

One can't say how one behaved or why, really. Such situations, they are far more complex than any either/or proposition. It is simplistic to produce ….

A person always has a chance to protest this or that..

That would be the death of anyone - to recognize false hopes with a certainty. One mustn't know that. If it is offered, refuse!.

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

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 ba….

We tire differently if we love or love not..

Clarity is the most important thing to me - in thinking - and so I try in the books to be as clear as possible..

The old man began to sing. His voice was very lovely and obviously a part of something that the world had disposed of in its haste, evidence of a gra….

…There 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….

I believe in discovering the love that exists and then trying to understand it. Not to invent a love and try to make it exist, but to find what does ….

Sunday was always the best of days for being the self you had intended to be, but were not, for one reason or another..

I have a different purpose in writing each novel. Some of them seem more similar than others, but the purposes are always different..

I'm confused, and brilliant books help me to be less so..

Not that believing such things has anything to do with whether they are true. You see that, don't you?.

I'm an elephant today. I will need to have lots of room and also a bowl of water on the floor..

Three things are required of you: the wishes you made when you first knew the breadth of this life; the contract you signed when you decided your wis….