Every utopia - let's just stick with the literary ones - faces the same problem: What do you do with the people who don't fit in?
Margaret AtwoodOne good maxim to keep in mind, and I can't remember who said it, "You meet the same people on the way down that you meet on the way up, but you're going the other way."
Margaret AtwoodIf you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen nextโif you knew in advance the consequences of your own actionsโyou'd be doomed. You'd be ruined as God. You'd be a stone. You'd never eat or drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning. You'd never love anyone, ever again. You'd never dare to.
Margaret AtwoodIn the First World War, people would be receiving letters from loved ones who had been dead for weeks, and they would not know until that black-bordered telegram arrived. I remember, of course, when it was letters only, or the telephone, and you did not make expensive long-distance calls unless it was, "Come home to the funeral," or the like.
Margaret Atwood