I'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's views of how I should have done it.

I'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's views of how I should have done it.

Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It's not having no responsibilitie s; it's choosing the ones you want.

I would solve a lot of literary problems just thinking about a character in the subway, where you can't do anything anyway.

When am I happy and when am I sad and what is the difference? What do I need to know to stay alive? What is true in the world?

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.

If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression.