A word after a word after a word is power.

Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee... I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.

I don't think the relationship between novels and realities are one to one. Of course novels play different roles. It's essentially just a long narrative form. What you use that long narrative form for can be very different.

If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.

If I pick up a book with spaceships on the cover, I want spaceships. If I see one with dragons, I want there to be dragons inside the book. Proper labeling. Ethical labeling. I don't want to open up my cornflakes and find that they're full of pebbles... You need to respect the reader enough not to call it something it isn't.