Before you ask more questions, think about whether you really want to know the answers.
My whole life experience feeds into my writing. I think that must be true for every writer. Clearly the Army and combat were major influences; just the same, you need to understand that many of the writers we have now couldn't load a revolver.
People don't want other people to be people.
Men are said to desire women, Severian. Why do they despise the women they obtain?
All novels are fantasies. Some are more honest about it.
He's not rewarding us by talking to us. He's talking to us because He has something to say to us directly, as opposed to the things He says to all humanity.