You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Surprise is where creativity comes in.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Ask no guarantees, ask for no security, there never was such an animal. And if there was it would be related to the great sloth which hangs upside down in a tree all day every day, sleeping its life away.

I take this continent with me into the grave.

I don't like the kind of writer who's out to change the world and beat up on people for their own good. Stalin did that and Hitler did that, and to hell with them.

If you did not write every day, the poisons would accumulate and you would begin to die, or act crazy or both-you must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.