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My reading is extremely eclectic. Lately I've been teaching myself computer graphics, so I'm reading a lot about that. I read books of trivia, of facts.

I like to study a lot of math, physics, and the Bible, too. For me, they all show that there's a lot more to things than we see.

I collect books - a lot of books.

I read, I study, I examine, I listen, I think, and out of all that I try to form an idea into which I put as much common sense as I can.

I offer detailed but mostly invented narratives about the provenance of my books.

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.

I remember that already as a child I was often intensely interested in things, obsessed by ideas and projects in many areas, and in these topics I learned much on my own, reading books.

Oh, I collect facts and quotes when I can't write, and I can't write most of the time. I do a little chance operation sometimes where I flip through outdated reference books to see if anything will strike me as beautiful or momentous. Library roulette, I call it.

I like to have books around to give me ideas-to get the verbal part of my brain to start working.