I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.

Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.

I am a human being, nothing human is alien to me.

So it goes.

The function of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible.

We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.