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'Utopia' is a positive and constructive program that gives people the opportunity, if you can start all over again, start from scratch and create laws and make decisions, will you be able to build a society that is better than the one we have; will it be chaos or happiness.

If you actually succeed in creating a utopia, you've created a world without conflict, in which everything is perfect. And if there's no conflict, there are no stories worth telling - or reading!

For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.

Every utopia - let's just stick with the literary ones - faces the same problem: What do you do with the people who don't fit in?

Vast areas are witness to the struggles of destitute populations trying to survive under unlivable conditions.

Some people consider utopia to be derived from nature. For some people, utopia is the city.

I can't think of anyone who is up on evolutionary psychology and related areas who is deluded enough to be called a utopian.

Utopia means elsewhere.

I believe that all my work explores the human desire or obsession for utopias, and the structure of all my works is the search for utopias lost and rediscovered.

Perhaps the greatest utopia would be if we could all realize that no utopia is possible; no place to run, no place to hide, just take care of business here and now.