You need imagination in order to imagine a future that doesn't exist.

Basically, fundamentalism is a modern phenomenon. In the same way that Hitler evoked a mythological religion of German purity and the glory of the past, the Islamists use religion to evoke emotions and passions in people who have been oppressed for a long time in order to reach their purpose.

I need you, the reader, to imagine us, for we don't really exist if you don't.

A bad author can take the most moral issue and make you want to just never, ever think about that moral issue.

The best work of literature to represent the American Dream is 'The Great Gatsby' by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It shows us how dreaming can be tainted by reality, and that if you don't compromise, you may suffer.

Once we know of atrocities we cannot remain silent, and knowledge inevitably leads to an urge to protect the innocent.