“Torn pages curl and brown.The flames fly up.In the flickering light a cry.Who will lift the fallen stones?Who will link the broken chain?”

“In an infinite universe, all things are possible -- within physical limits, that is -- and any book that can be written does physically exist. Somewhere. The book is the bridge between the words and the physical actuality.”

“Rivers of fire. Even the rocks burn.An island rises from the sea.Dark magic in an errant phrase.The people bow to the lord of error.”

“The reader is entertained by the journey of another, but the writer is the changer of worlds.”

“If you act for self-gain then no good can come of it. If you act selflessly, then you act well for all and you must not be afraid.”

“John Galt is Prometheus who changed his mind. After centuries of being torn by vultures in payment for having brought to men the fire of the gods, he broke his chains—and he withdrew his fire—until the day when men withdraw their vultures.”

“Thousands of years ago the first man discovered how to make fire. He was probably burnt at the stake he'd taught his brothers to light, but he left them a gift they had not conceived and he lifted darkness from the face of the Earth.”