The characters [of The Tempest] have always been favorites of mine. It is one of his meditations on art - what it does.
Margaret AtwoodNothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub you'd be boiled to death before you knew it.
Margaret AtwoodWhen they're gone out of his head, these words, they'll be gone, everywhere, forever. As if they had never been.
Margaret AtwoodOur problem right now is that we're so specialized that if the lights go out, there are a huge number of people who are not going to know what to do. But within every dystopia there's a little utopia.
Margaret Atwood