Quotes from John Twelve Hawks

The most significant challenge to stability is the perverse impulse toward freedom. You can't control this desire for freedom entirely with threats and punishments; it's more effective if you teach people to doubt the reality of their own perceptions. When the system is working correctly, they censor themselves.

The Grid still exists even if you don't see the lines

Walking is easy, but it requires faith to find the right path.

I remained silent and continued designing my Pyramid of Life. Dogs were at the top and I was at the base, but I hadn't figured out where to put cats.

Although I write dystopian fiction, I don't believe in dystopian fantasies.

Without private thoughts and actions, we can never truly be free.

You can't truly hear your own voice until the shouting around you disappears. New ideas and possibilities - our own ideas, our own possibilities - will occur only when we step away from the Virtual Panopticon.

Walking is easy ... but it requires faith to find the right path.