I learned from the example of my father that the manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured.
“But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that.”
“What does gene A do? What does gene B do? What does it do in different contexts? What's its importance? We know the answer to that for a very small number of genes, the ones that made themselves evident many years ago.”