Sexist language, racist language, theistic language - all are typical of the policing languages of mastery, and cannot, do not, permit new knowledge or encourage the mutual exchange of ideas.

Maybe [I care about language] because I'm an editor, maybe because I'm picky, but it's all we got, don't shrink it. Don't dumb it out, make it little.

There's a contract that I make between myself, the author, and the reader. I have to figure out how to give the reader certain powers of recognition, or his own knowledge, his own feelings, but I provide them, so we're working together.

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

There is really nothing more to say - except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.

Books ARE a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.

The function of freedom is to free someone else.