A moll, that is, A minor

Those earlier books featured intricate, mazelike narratives and enigmatic confrontations between what he has called “average poor bastards” and emissaries of “an emerging technopolitical order that might or might not know what it was doing.”

Some people say a lie is just a lie / But I say the cross is in the ballpark / Why deny the obvious, child?

I don't think he is a nice person, because he yells at people for no reason.