The power to concentrate was the most important thing. Living without this power would be like opening one’s eyes without seeing anything.

Everybody has to start somewhere. You have your whole future ahead of you. Perfection doesn't happen right away.

a leader with vision and experience.

It's an entirely fresh experience to see my vision on the walls. It was also particularly gratifying for me to see how it's been received by the public. It's been received with open arms.

Most near-future fictions are boring. It's always dark and always raining, and people are so unhappy.

George Orwell is half journalist, half fiction writer. I'm 100 percent fiction writer... I don't want to write messages. I want to write good stories. I think of myself as a political person, but I don't state my political messages to anybody.