I always thought the front line was the bookstores. And bookstores around America, around the world did astonishingly well. They held the line. They didn't chicken out. You know, they defended the book. They kept it in the front of the store.

She's no flibberti-gibberti mamzell, but a whir-stir-get-lost-sir bundla dynamite!

Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.

Anyone who reads my work will see that there are often difficult relationships between fathers and sons.

Literature is the one place in any society where, within the secrecy of our own heads, we can hear voices talking about everything in every possible way.

I'm not saying I am never going to fall in love again, but there is no need to marry.

Sometimes great, banned works defy the censor's description and impose themselves on the world - 'Ulysses,' 'Lolita,' the 'Arabian Nights.'