...ultimately it come down to, are you making or are you destroying? If you try very hard to create ways of living, create dreams of what is possible, then you win. If you don't, you may make a fortune in ten years, but you're not going to be read in twenty years, and that's that.

I cannot believe such monstrous energy of grief can lead to nothing!

Talking, talking. Spinning a web of words, pale walls of dreams, between myself and all I see.

When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.

The citizen can bring our political and governmental institutions back to life, make them responsive and accountable, and keep them honest. No one else can.

The primary subject of fiction is and has always been human emotion, values, and beliefs.

The image-managers encourage the individual to fashion himself into a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.