I Like The Idea Of An Open,

It Is The Effect Of Scarcity; One’s Rules Of Propriety Make One Thirst For The Improper.

Novel Writing Is Solitary Work.

What Did I Think Of Princeton? Well, The Answer To That Question Requires A Story. When I First Arrived, I Looked Around Me At The Gothic Buildings - Younger, I Later Learned, Than Many Of The Mosques Of This City, But Made Through Acid Treatment And Ingenious Stone-masonry To Look Older.

Walking Is A Meditative Act. It's So Rare That We Allow Ourselves Just To Be.

My Dad Had This Outlook: It Doesn't Matter What I Want To Read - Reading Was A Good Thing. So Whatever I Was Curious About They'd Get For Me From The Library. Books Were A Kind Of A Resistance To Reality. I Liked To Imagine Worlds That Were Different. I Still Do.