You don't have conversations with microprocessors. You tell them what to do, then helplessly watch the disaster when they take you literally!

My first duty to write a gripping yarn. Second is to convey credible characters who make you feel what they feel. Only third comes the idea.

Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on.

Everything isn't subjective. Reality also matters. Truth matters. It is still a word with meaning.

If there are still honest-smart men and women within those old and noble traditions, they should think carefully, observe and diagnose the illness. They should face the contradiction. Discuss the conflation. And then do as Warren Buffett and Bill Gates and many others have done. Choose the miracle of creative competition over an idolatry of cash. They should stand up.

Fortunately, human beings are remarkably diverse models to work from

Every marvel of our age arose out of the critical give and take of an open society. No other civilization ever managed to incorporate this crucial innovation, weaving it into daily life. And if you disagree with this... say so!