Access to knowledge is the superb, the supreme act of truly great civilizations. Of all the institutions that purport to do this, free libraries stand virtually alone in accomplishing this mission.

When a man angers you, he conquers you.

Don't ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn't fall in love, I rose in it.

Evil is just sort of ultimately boring. The good thing is just complicated. It's more provocative to me and more stimulating to me.

The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.

I have the wonderful pleasure of finishing the book and closing it. And I don't read them later.

I get angry about things, then go on and work.