"Master, often, there is some quotation or other at the beginning of a book. Most writers do it, why not here?"
"I regarded the lessons themselves of such importance, that I even put the prologue after them. Besides, there is so much to choose from, Confucius, Seneca, Wells, Wyndham, and so on. It would soon become a whole page, then several pages, and finally many of the Tao Stoics themselves."
"But if you had to choose one, only one, what would you take?
"Why, I would perhaps take one from George Orwell's 'Nineteen Eighty Four', from the diary of Winston Smith. It would also serve admirably for an exit line. Here goes:
'From the age of uniformity, from the age of solitude, from the age of Big Brother, from the age of double think, greetings.'