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Ambiguity is something that I really respond to. I like the complexity of it.

I'm a participant in the doctrine of constructive ambiguity.

I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous.

I want all my books to provoke some kind of response in the reader, to make them think something or feel something or both, and for that to become a part of them and work into their own lives.

In all of my work I'm trying to create a dialogue, in which I want to provoke the recipients, stimulate them to use their own imaginations. I don't just say things recipients want to hear, flatter their egos or comfort them by agreeing with them. I have to provoke them, to take them as seriously as I take myself.

We live in times that are in many ways ambiguous. Maybe that's why kids want precision in what they read - they don't like that moral ambiguity.

Ambiguity is very interesting in writing; it's not very interesting in science.

There are readers who want every point to be clearly and unambiguously set forth, and there are those who want to pry ideas and meanings out for themselves.

I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow.

My goal is to invite readers to think along with me and draw their own conclusions.