Even when things are at their worst, there's a little voice in your head saying, 'Good story!'

O the shame of it, the humiliating shame of being condescended to by dolts

Rock n' roll was a kid when I was a kid.

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.

It may be that the books that were best liked in your lifetime are not the ones that are best liked 100 years later.

But I - and I just think it's very - one of the problems of defending the extraordinary principle of freedom of speech is that you have to defend freedom of speech for people like that too.

Even when things are at their worst, there's a little voice in your head saying, 'Good story!'