"The role of literature is to make the world more complex, not to simplify it."
The power of the Internet lies in its ability to connect people.
The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.
"To be a novelist is to be interested in what other people aren't interested in."
The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.