“R-E-S-P-E-C-T!!!”
“Hey, I'm like Aretha Franklin, I don't get no R -S -P -E -C -T around here!”
“S-A-T-O-RA-R-E-P-O T-E-N-E-T O-P-E-R-A R-O-T-A-SThe palindrome means something like “The farmer Arepo works with his plow,” with rotas, literally “wheels,” referring to the back-and-forth motion that plows make as they till. This “magic square” has delighted enigmatologists for centuries ... The magic square also reportedly kept away the devil, who traditionally (so said the church) got confused when he read palindromes.”
“Gazzy: Captain, like the captain of a ship. And then Terror, you know, T-E-R-O-R.”
“If you`re wondering how you`ll find time, it means you don`t really want to read. Because nobody`s ever got time. Children certainly haven`t, nor have teenagers or grown-ups. Life always gets in the way. <...>Time to read is always time stolen. <...>Stolen from what? From the tyranny of living.”- p.125”