“What can a book give you that a movie doesn’t, that art doesn’t, that drugs don’t?” he asks. “A book can contain an enormous amount of information—more than your mind can handle. But it can deliver it in a way that feels like a dream, like you’re being whispered to in a dream. I’m always trying to get in back of people’s brains and, you know, maybe tickle. I’m not going to say what I’m tickling, but I’m tickling something.”