Excerpts from books

Post an excerpt from a book:

"How can we be the children of Satan?" he asked. "Do you believe that Satan made this world around you?"
"No, I believe that God made it, if anyone made it. But He also must have made Satan, and I want to know if we are his children!"
"Exactly, and consequently if you believe God made Satan, you must realize that all of Satan's power comes from God and that Satan is simply God's child, and that we are God's children also. There are no children of Satan, really."

-Interview with the Vampire, by Anne Rice

"When you have made evil the means of survival, do not expect men to remain good. Do not expect them to stay moral and lose their lives for the purpose of becoming the fodder of the immoral. Do not expect them to produce, when production is punished and looting is rewarded. Do not ask, 'Who is destroying the world?' You are."

-Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand

"This is an imaginary little guy (there is never any attempt to feminize him) who sits in an easy chair in your brain watching a big-screen HDTV that displays all your sensory information, processing it all and thinking your thoughts."

-Theatre of the Mind, by Jay Ingram