As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you're going to say, 'Where did we come from, what happens next?' The ability to remember the past helps us plan the future.
Every utopia - let's just stick with the literary ones - faces the same problem: What do you do with the people who don't fit in?
We shouldn't be saying 'Save the planet'; we should be saying: 'Save viable conditions in which people can live.' That's what we're dealing with here.
If I waited for perfection... I would never write a word.
There are two types of freedom in this world: freedom to and freedom from.
