It is clear that a novel cannot be too bad to be worth publishing. . . . It certainly is possible for a novel to be too good to be worth publishing.

We are all victims of the violence that animals suffer... their liberation is also our liberation.

Violence is the repartee of the illiterate.

If you teach a man anything, he will never learn.

Assassination on the scaffold is the worst form of assassination.

It is not that I am so clever; it is that everyone else is so stupid.

Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay.