“But people on the whole were pretty dim upstairs, and if you started dwelling upon this or that person’s dimness, ranking it and measuring just how dim this or that motherfucker was, before you realize it half the day is gone.” — Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead
@JamesGleick He's very funny in person too - saw him in Seattle as part of his "Crook Manifesto" promotional tour. He read a passage from the final book in the trilogy ("I'm at page 54"). Never seen an author talk about an unfinished novel before.