Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings

The world is in balance . To light a candle is to cast a shadow.

Readers, after all, are making the world with you. You give them the materials, but it's the readers who build that world in their own minds.

Fire and fear, good servants, bad lords.

Lying is the misuse of language. We know that. We need to remember that it works the other way round too. Even with the best intentions, language misused, language used stupidly, carelessly, brutally, language used wrongly, breeds lies, half-truths, confusion. In that sense you can say that grammar is morality. And it is in that sense that I say a writer's first duty is to use language well.

Abstractions about right and wrong, whether they are as old as Thou Shalt Not Kill or as modern as Do Your Own Thing, often serve only to confuse and weaken genuine moral decision.

What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?