There is no society that does not highly value fictional storytelling. Ever.

When you walk on the face of a world, then forgiveness comes.

A good working definition of fanaticism is that you are so convinced of your views and policies that you are sure that anyone who opposed them must be either stupid and decieved or have some ulterior motive. We are today a nation where almost everyone in the public eye displays fanaticism with every utterance.

It's the teachers, they're the enemy. They get us to fight each other, to hate each other.

Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.

If the other fellow can't tell you his story, you can never be sure he isn't trying to kill you.

Perhaps every writer who thoroughly creates a fictional world will inevitably create a mirror of his own time and yet also create a world that no one else but him has ever visited.