Human beings have an unalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing.

It's absolutely philistine not to recognize what a great book 'An American Dream' is. Norman Mailer is his own worst enemy, and if you don't catch him in a defensive position, he'll admit it. I'd really like to help that man.

Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.

We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.

There are poems about the internet and about the shipping forecast but very few by women celebrating men.

There is no such thing as security. There never has been.