“In the outside world, my brother told me, people were as reckless as animals and fornicated with strangers on the street.”

“Churches in the outside world, my brother told me, were just the local stores that sold people lies made up in the distant factories of giant religions.”

“In the wicked outside world, my brother told me, there were sins the church didn't know enough to forbid. I couldn't wait.”

“In the outside world, he told me, there was no real silence.”

“A hotel, he told me, was a big house where a lot of people lived and ate and slept, but no one knew each other. He said that described most families in the outside world.”

“In the outside world, he said, people were visited in their houses by spirits they called television.Spirits spoke to people through what they called the radio.”

“Without animals, there would be no humanity. In a world of just people, people will mean nothing . . .”