Try to put your happiness before anyone else's, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself.
I looked up and saw a bunch of military-looking guys in coveralls, holding big, bulky rifles and wearing hooded gas masks with tinted face-plates.
For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.