“With any work worth its salt, you have to trust the author enough to take its measure. And if you apply too many preconceptions, you are not taking its measure.”
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The technology that threatens to kill off books as we know them - the 'physical book, ' a new phrase in our language - is also making the physical book capable of being more beautiful than books have been since the middle ages.
You know, at the end of the day, the only thing you have is trust and honor in this world. That's all you have. All you have is your reputation built on trust and your personal honor. When you don't have that anymore, well, you know, there you go. Trust was broken.
I don't trust that many people. Just my mother and my wife and a couple of friends. When I trust people, it doesn't end well.
It's a very brave thing to fall in love. You have to be willing to trust somebody else with your whole being, and that's very difficult, really difficult and very brave.