And when I was young, my family was perfectly nice. I write a lot about it, as you noticed. But it was rather limited. I think, I don't think anyone in my family would really feel I'd done them an injustice by saying that. We didn't see many people. There were many books. It was as if I wanted to get away from home.

You can't have occupation and human rights.

It ought to be an offense to be excruciating and unfunny in circumstances where your audience is almost morally obliged to enthuse.

Your ideal authors ought to pull you from the foundering of your previous existence, not smilingly guide you into a friendly and peaceable harbor.

Religion gets its morality from us. We don't get our morality from religion.

If religious instruction were not allowed until the child had attained the age of reason, we would be living in a quite different world.

It's true that obscenity is a matter of taste and in the eye of the beholder.