There's This Crazy Thinking That Style Guarantees

I Like To Think That One Of Things I've Done With Non-fiction Since The Very Beginning Is To Find New Ways Of Telling True Stories.

The Claim That Everybody Sees The World Differently Is Not A Claim That There's No Reality. It's A Different Kind Of Claim.

Writing Is A Form Of Talking, Although Writing Is Such An Odd Thing In And Of Itself. People Go About It In Such Different Ways.

Certain Kinds Of Intimacy Emerge On A Phone Call That Might Never Occur If You Were Sitting Right Next To The Other Person.

We Imagine What This Country Is, But Quite Clearly, This Country Is A Mystery. I Mean, One Of The Reasons I Did The Election Ads Is, I Thought I Could Learn Something. Like, What The Hell Is Going On? I Think Anybody - Particularly A Person Of Leftist Persuasion Such As Myself - Who Stops And Thinks Even For A Moment, Realizes That Something Strange Is Going On And We Don't Quite Get It.