It is an excellent offer.

229

I now bear a kind of stigmata. I am in the computer as having been denied entry to the United States and that is really bad news. They can put things into that computer, but they never take them out.

190

By measuring individual human worth, the novelist reveals the full enormity of the State's crime when it sets out to crush that individuality.

182

You enter a state of controlled passivity, you relax your grip and accept that even if your declared intention is to justify the ways of God to man, you might end up interesting your readers rather more in Satan.

165

Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

143

It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales of successful resistance for the benefit of the opposition. The naming of what is there is what is important.

111

This was a tough decision, but it was driven by our need for higher temperatures. This is not a cost-cutting measure.

101

One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.

100

It's just a little dusty valley. There is nothing there. We're going to have to develop the entire site.

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