“They were all brilliant. They wrote books and painted pictures, and if they ever stopped talking, which I was sure they would never do, they planned to change the world.”
“Like every book I never wrote, it is by far the best book I have ever written.”
“Artists paint pictures. The best artists paint pictures for children's books.”
“The world doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?”
“These were citizens who, never having bothered to awaken to the technological and psychic changes in their world, hadn't bothered to defend themselves, hadn't bothered to build walls or plan counterattacks or build weapons-- asleep inside their collective dream, thinking for all the world that the unthinkable would never happen. Thinking they were safe.”
“A virtue never tested is no virtue at all.- Must I Paint You a Picture”