The society in 'The Handmaid's Tale' is a throwback to the early Puritans whom I studied extensively at Harvard under Perry Miller, to whom the book is dedicated.
What you don’t know won’t hurt you. A dubious maxim: sometimes what you don’t know can hurt you very much.
There is good and mediocre writing within every genre.
There are two types of freedom in this world: freedom to and freedom from.
Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.
Everyone thinks writers must know more about the inside of the human head, but that's wrong. They know less, that's why they write. Trying to find out what everyone else takes for granted.
