I want my thoughts to be an incentive for the reader to give his or her own thoughts. After I wrote 'Proust and the Squid,' I received truly hundreds of letters - I'm still receiving them - and the letters that I wrote back helped me formulate my thinking around things I know are important to others.

We need to discern what it is that requires reflection in our lives and in what we read and how we read it.

Inevitably, there will be many aspects of culture that would benefit from a more reflective or contemplative approach to them.

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