What makes books - and with them writers - so dangerous that church and state, politburos and the mass media feel the need to oppose them?

On sorrow floats laughter.

Students who don't want to get anywhere are sure to get somewhere.

I have often supported Israel, I have often visited the country and want the country to exist and at last find peace with its neighbours.

How easily the routine of sin establishes itself.

Granted: I AM an inmate of a mental hospital; my keeper is watching me, he never lets me out of his sight; there's a peep-hole in the door, and my keeper's eye is the shade of brown that can never see through a blue-eyed type like me.

I am not faithful but I am attached.