The fish in the creek said nothing. Fish never do. Few people know what fish think about injustice, or anything else.

But need alone is not enough to set power free: there must be knowledge.

Skill in writing frees you to write what you want to write. It may also show you what you want to write. Craft enables art.

When I'm writing I don't dream much; it's like the dreaming gets used in the writing.

Primitiveness and civilization are degrees of the same thing. If civilization has an opposite, it is war.

I suppose the most important thing, the heaviest single factor in one's life, is whether one's born male or female. In most societies it determines one's expectations, activities, outlook, ethics, manners - almost everything. Vocabulary. Semiotic usages. Clothing. Even food. Women... women tend to eat less... It's extremely hard to separate the innate differences from the learned ones. Even where women participate equally with men in the society, they still after all do all the childbearing, and so most of the child-rearing.

The airport bookstore did not sell books, only bestsellers, which Sita Dulip cannot read without risking a severe systemic reaction.