A mature society understands that at the heart of democracy is argument.

Censorship is the thing that stops you doing what you want to do, and what writers want to talk about is what they do, not what stops them doing it.

Unfortunately, the problem of the free speech argument is that you have to defend people you can't stand.

History could claw upward as well as down. The powerful could be deafened by the cries of the poor.

If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed before the individual religions. The religions were only invented by people afterwards, in order to express this idea.

Nobody wants to read a 600 page book in which the author is fabulous throughout.

Hyperrealism can create an atmosphere of surrealism because nobody sees the world in such detail.