“If social stability goes pear-shaped, you have a choice between anarchy and dictatorship. Most people will opt for more security,...”

“I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.”

“The society in 'The Handmaid's Tale' is a throwback to the early Puritans whom I studied extensively at Harvard under Perry Miller...”

“When I am writing fiction, I believe I am much better organized, more methodical - one has to be when writing a novel. Writing poe...”

“The genesis of a poem for me is usually a cluster of words. The only good metaphor I can think of is a scientific one: dipping a t...”

“Every aspect of human technology has a dark side, including the bow and arrow.”

“The truth is my idea has been to always stay at Barcelona and see out the rest of my career here. Like I always say, one doesn't k...”

“Nationalist, anti-European, anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim public political figures, seem a worrying picture of a possible European f...”

“One of the things I like about the computer that I use is that I can write a program on it or I can download a program on to it an...”

“We're trying to set up a movie for me in the near future. It's going to be similar to the story of how I got discovered. Kinda lik...”

“I found, when I left, that there were others who felt the same way. We'd meet, they'd come and seek me out, we'd talk about the fu...”

“Why do people so love to wander? I think the civilized parts of the World will suffice for me in the future.”