The Oldest Principle Of Composition: Repeat Everything.

Only Keep Still, Wait, And Hear, And The World Will Open.

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.

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.

What I Really Like To Learn How To Do Is To Build Sentences That Are Equal To Mental States.

The Job Of Taste Was To Thin The Insane Torrent Of Human Creativity Down To Manageable Levels. But The Job Of Appetite Was Never To Be Happy With Taste.