Go, my book, and help destroy the world as it is.

The Cop. She has a steel grid in front of her mind, and for anything in the outer world to reach her it first has to squeeze through the bars of that grid. Information has to be broken into small cubes; information and data packaged in two-dimensional squares are preferable to three-dimensional cubes however: they pass through the grid more quickly and once they reach the Cop’s mind take up less space there.

To deliberately damage or harm any holy book, any book really for that matter is wrong. They are receptacles of knowledge and ideas, keep them and storing them and disseminating them for the benefit of humanity,books ultimately exist to serve, regardless if one agrees with it or not. It was an assault on knowledge and enlightenment, that sad desire of some to see the triumph of ignorance over wisdom.

If a law were passed giving six months to every writer of a first book, only the good ones would do it.

...stories want to be told. Stories have a power of their own ... you can't write a story until you've felt it. Breathed it in. Walked with your characters. Talked with them.

There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.