Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

When you know what you're against you have taken the first step to discovering what you're for.

The enemy for the fanatic is pleasure, which makes it extremely important to continue to indulge in pleasure. Dance madly. That is how you get rid of terrorism.

Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.

A people that has remained convinced of its greatness and invulnerability, that has chosen to believe such a myth in the face of all the evidence, is a people in the grip of a kind of sleep, or madness.

Once you get that instinct for the fictiveness, the fictionality of fiction, it kind of sets you free.

What grows best in the heat: fantasy; unreason; lust.