No government can act in advance of the moral will of the people.

There are two options for any society: total prohibition as in a totalitarian state, or total license. Both avoid the ardours of decision. Both have the attraction of certainty. The difficult option is to decide where the line should be drawn and this, surely, is the responsiblity of any civilized and democratic country.

No literary form is more revealing, more spontaneous or more individual than a letter.

A regime which combines perpetual surveillance with total indulgence is hardly conducive to healthy development.

gossip ... was like any other commodity in the marketplace. You received it only if you had something of value to give.

Write what you need to write, not what is currently popular or what you think will sell.

I find it extraordinary that a straightforward if inelegant device for ensuring the survival of the species should involve human beings in such emotional turmoil. Does sex have to be taken so seriously?