Alone, no one wins freedom.

There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams.

It is hard to swear when sex is not dirty and blasphemy does not exist.

For we each of us deserve everything, every luxury that was ever piled in the tombs of the dead Kings, and we each of us deserve nothing, not a mouthful of bread in hunger. Have we not eaten while another starved? Will you punish us for that? Will you reward us for the virtue of starving while others ate? No man earns punishment, no man earns reward. Free your mind of the idea of deserving, the idea of earning, and you will begin to be able to think.

I have no control over my writing. I have lots of good intentions, but no control. There's a story that wants to be told.

Do you know how to read?" "No. It is one of the black arts." He nodded. "But a useful one," he said.

To learn a belief without the belief is to sing a song without the tune.