It's just a matter of writing the kind of book I enjoy reading. Something better be happening at the beginning, and then on every page after, or I get irritated.

Every good writer I know needs to go into some deep, quiet place to do work that is fully imagined. And what the Internet brings is lots of vulgar data. It is the antithesis of the imagination. It leaves nothing to the imagination.

And Silence of the Lambs is a really smart book.

Reading enables me to maintain a sense of something substantive– my ethical integrity, my intellectual integrity.

The real pleasure in writing this, for me, was discovering how little you need.

Mwisho wa sura si mwisho wa kitabu. Fungua ukurasa mwingine.