In short, no pattern is an isolated entity. Each pattern can exist in the world only to the extent that is supported by other patterns: the larger patterns in which it is embedded, the patterns of the same size that surround it, and the smaller patterns which are embedded in it.
“What I like about non-fiction is that it covers such a huge territory. The best non-fiction is also creative.”
“A woman is more beautiful than the world in which I live; and so I close my eyes.”