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

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

Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain't no free rides, baby. No hitchhiking. And if you want to strike out in any new direction — you go alone. With a machete in your hand and the fear of God in your heart.

This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.

George, it's impossible to correct a defective reality-orientation overnight.

Every book purchase made from Amazon is a vote for a culture without content and without contentment.

Science fiction properly conceived, like all serious fiction, however funny, is a way of trying to describe what is in fact going on, what people actually do and feel, how people relate to everything else in this vast sack, this belly of the universe, this womb of things to be and tomb of things that were, this unending story.