"You can’t just sit down and write a book. That’s not how books get written. Books get written by living your life, by being open to the world, by paying attention."

Writing is that neutral, composite, oblique space where our subject slips away, the negative where all identity is lost, starting with the very identity of the body writing.

In this business, if you're good, you're right six times out of ten. You're never going to be right nine times out of ten.