I started out in engineering. I was a geophysical engineer. Throughout the course of my life I've done a lot of strange jobs and the effect has been to make me think a little more skeptically about our capitalist society.
Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth....
The whole system of society tells you what to do.
Hope deceiving as it is serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
