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

You can't judge an internal injury by the size of the hole.

You don't just - you often have to defend the freedoms of people you don't like, you know, whose work you don't like, because freedom of speech is not just for serious people. It's also for trashy people. So, and, unfortunately, this is at the trashy end of the scale.

Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.

People can do bad things with free speech as well as good. You have to defend the Ku Klux Klan as well as Martin Luther King. It's like that. If you're going to defend the principle, then you have to defend people who use the principle badly.

Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.

If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.