It would be enough for me to have the system of a jury of twelve versus the system of one judge as a basis for preferring the U.S. to the Soviet Union. I would prefer the country you can leave to the country you cannot.

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

The Constitution doesn't mention rain.

Who included me among the ranks of the human race?

What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

I didn't want to be either the cre`me de la cre`me or a martyr. I'd rather be a novelty, especially in a democracy that doesn't understand the language I write in.

As long as the state permits itself to interfere in the affairs of literature, literature has the right to interfere with the affairs of state.