In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists.

I am trying to prevent a bloodbath. Is that clear enough for you? I'm trying to prevent a civil war that could kill half the people in this world.

We're looking as far ahead as we can, and we don't get penalized for mistakes.

But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form.

As for AIDS, it's a plague. We are human, we get plagues. They come along every so often, kill off two thirds of the population; in the next generation it's a quarter; after that it's a childhood disease.

Spray a book with insect spray, drop it in a bag, add some mothballs and seal it. Put it in another bag and seal it. Another. The packages piled up on the floor, each a book sealed in four plastic envelopes.

In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists.