Sometimes, the best answer is a more interesting question.

I MAY HAVE ALLOWED MYSELF SOME FLICKER OF EMOTION IN THE RECENT PAST, said Death, BUT I CAN GIVE IT UP ANY TIME I LIKE.

In the words of the philosopher Sceptum, the founder of my profession: am I going to get paid for this?

[Science fiction is] out in the mainstream now. You can tell by the way mainstream literary authors pillage SF while denying they're writing it!

The trouble is you can shut your eyes but you can’t shut your mind.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

In the end the problem isn't that you have the wrong sort of government for the People, but that you have the wrong sort of People.