How to Talk to Tim

James Carville: I think that, well, I find it helpful not to have really restrictive wooden categories for how you could approach telling someone's life story. And the way that you go about writing your book is itself some kind of commentary interpretation of the person that you're trying to write about. So, that's something that I think really works well in your book with this angle of trying to uncover the spiritual influences, those who formed him intellectually and to try and get it. When you talked to him at different points, you're immediately beckoned into a conversation about what he's currently reading.