There is nothing "ordinary" about reality.
The greatest realities are physical and economic, all the subtleties of life come afterward.
If you're living with a scientist, you see the world differently than you do with a humanist. It's in some ways very subtle, the differences in perceiving reality.
When people say there is too much violence in my books, what they are saying is there is too much reality in life.
We come away from the tragedies of [William] Shakespeare with a profound sense of having encountered reality in its most pristine form - yet the art-work is elaborately artificial, the very genre of tragedy in poetry an anti-naturalist perspective.
