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When a person speculates about my identity, it reveals something about their own background and preferences. If the canvas is blank; the only thing people can see on its surface is themselves.

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True freedom is tolerant. It gives people the right to live and think in new ways.

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Modern authority is based on a system of lies that are accepted by the general population. If you pull away the curtain and show the reality of power, people are motivated to question the fictions that govern their own lives.

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One cliché endlessly offered up by the people supporting government surveillance is that there needs to be a trade-off between security and privacy. But this is a trade that goes only one way. It's clear that we've lost control over what personal information is public and what we prefer to keep private. The new reality is that they see us, but we can't see them.

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Many of our leaders have gone past the old-fashioned politics of the democratic era and entered into the politics of fear. People running for national office no longer emphasize their views about the economy or social change. The leading political question of our time has become: who can ease our nightmares?

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QUESTION: Is there a reason for the pen name? One you'd be willing to share, I suppose. As in, is it because you're actually a secret CIA agent and/or Russian spy, or merely because you don't ever want your mother knowing what you've written?
JTH: My mother and the rest of my family don't know that I have written the novels. Those people I know who aren't close friends see me as a failure by the American standards of success. Being a failure in such a way has been a continual lesson. It's helped me realize that we make quick judgments of others based on little real information. We assume so much – but don't know the secrets held within the heart.

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When people decide that a certain way of faith is destined and inevitable, hatred and intolerance follow. Instead of saying, 'The Light is within you, choose the Light,' the message becomes 'Agree with our version of history or we'll kill you.

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All the news stories were telling me to be frightened. All the commercials were telling me to buy things I didn't need. The message was that people could only be passive victims or consumers.

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