Science fiction is not prescriptive; it is descriptive. - Ursula K. Le Guin

As you read a book word by word and page by page, you participate in its creation, just as a cellist playing a Bach suite participates, note by note, in the creation, the coming-to-be, the existence, of the music. And, as you read and re-read, the book of course participates in the creation of you, your thoughts and feelings, the size and temper of your soul.

No granite is so hard as hatred and no clay so cold as cruelty.

In the self-important, Falco reflected, there is always room for a little more self-importance.