Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.

when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.

Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.

Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature

what a writer does is to try to make sense of life. I think that's what writing is, I think that's what painting is. It's seeking that thread of order and logic in the disorder, and the incredible waste and marvelous profligate character of life. What all artists are trying to do is to make sense of life.

Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.

Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self