If your voice is heard by more people because you've earned some kind of name and fame, your silence on an issue of urgent moral importance is even more of a betrayal. Privilege is obligation.

I am living in a nightmare, from which from time to time I wake in sleep.

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.

There's nothing wrong with me...except acute chronic fear.

Truth is a matter of the imagination.

The wise needn't ask, the fool asks in vain.

Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.