Don't write for money. Write because you love to do something. If you write for money, you won't write anything worth reading.

I want your loves to be multiple. I don't want you to be a snob about anything. Anything you love, you do it.

If we try to deny the darkness in our souls then we'll become completely dark.

Man has always been half-monster, half-dreamer.

Those women like to see their tongues dance.

Orwell was dealing with communism and his disillusionment with communism in Russia and what he saw the communists do in Spain. His novel was a response to those political situations. Whereas I was interested in more things than the political atmosphere. I was considering the whole social atmosphere: the impact of TV and radio and the lack of education. I could see the coming event of schoolteachers not teaching reading anymore. The less they taught, the more you wouldn't need books.

The Martians were there - in the canal - reflected in the water.... The Martians stared back up at them for a long, long silent time from the rippling water.