I needed my stuff around me, and in that little cocoon I felt good, and I could work.

It just requires so much of you, and most of the time you feel dumb.

The USA approach looks like bullying because it is.

When a reader falls in love with a book, it leaves its essence inside him, like radioactive fallout in an arable field, and after that there are certain crops that will no longer grow in him, while other, stranger, more fantastic growths may occasionally be produced.

I do not envy people who think they have a complete explanation of the world, for the simple reason that they are obviously wrong.

The only way to find out why someone decides to engage in armed combat is to look at their individual personality.

The publishing of a book is a worldwide event. The attempt to suppress a book is a worldwide event.