The world seems so clean if you only looked up.

Most dystopian, classic and contemporary, paints a future world that puts a twist on present society - a future world that could plausibly happen.

Set fire to the broken pieces; start anew.

Dystopian, by definition, promises a darker story.

I think she's brave. I think that nobody has ever believed what she could be capable of. All her life, nobody was listening.

Fall has always been my favorite season. The time when everything bursts with its last beauty, as if nature had been saving up all year for the grand finale.

There's a hazy smile on her lips that won't go away, and her hair is a mess. It's like a brushfire filled with casualties.

‎I have always been fascinated by the ocean, to dip a limb beneath its surface and know that I'm touching eternity, that it goes on forever until it begins here again.

We writers are resilient souls.

Her mind is a bird that's trapped inside her skull, flapping and thrashing, never breaking free.

Childhood is a long, long road, from which that dark whispering forest of death seems an impossible destination.

A red nose is the clown's mask and my moustache is mine.

Sometimes, I worry I'm winning.

Lightening flashed again and again but above the shriek of the wind and the pounding hail they never heard the thunder.

It won't take weeks... Our military machine will crush Iraq in a matter of days and there's no question that it will.

The women's movement was coming, but I didn't know it in 1956-1957, when I began to write.

There is no luck, you work hard and study things intently. If you do that for long and hard enough you're successful.

I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.

Every human being is entitled to courtesy and consideration. Constructive criticism is not only to be expected but sought.

The cardinal virtue of a teacher [is] to protect the pupil from his own influence.

Rich people collect land. Poor people collect bills.