The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.

The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself.

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.

What's needed in this case is conscious and serious practice in hearing, and using, and being used by, other people's voices.

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.

If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.

To oppose something is to maintain it... You must go somewhere else; you must have another goal; then you walk a different road.