Do they merit vitriol, even a drop of it? Yes, because they corrupt the young, persuading them that the mature world, which produced Beethoven and Schweitzer, sets an even higher value on the transient anodynes of youth than does youth itself.... They are the Hollow Men. They are electronic lice.

To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.

We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it.

If you write fiction you are, in a sense, corrupted. There's a tremendous corruptibility for the fiction writer because you're dealing mainly with sex and violence. These remain the basic themes, they're the basic themes of Shakespeare whether you like it or not.

When the State withers, humanity flowers.

Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate.

...We're a government that believes in everybody having the illusion of free will.