Free and fair access to books - to reading - is a right and one we should fight for.

People have different views of how you deal with different issues in literature, and, frankly, long may it last that there is a range of views.

What we attempt to do is not without danger. What we attempt to do may not succeed. But it is right and it is just. We act for the good of all.

There comes always a moment when the desire to act, however ill the cause, is stronger than the wish to listen.

Usually I decide on what it is I'm writing next by the books I'm reading.

Free and fair access to books - to reading - is a right and one we should fight for.

There is no pattern the human mind can devise that does not exist already within the bounds of nature...Everything we do, see, write, notate, all are an echo of the deep seams of the universe. Music is the invisible world made visible through sound.