Skill in writing frees you to write what you want to write. It may also show you what you want to write. Craft enables art.

Crankish attacks on the freedom to read are common at present. When backed and coordinated by organized groups, they become sinister.

Primitiveness and civilization are degrees of the same thing. If civilization has an opposite, it is war.

I think hard times are coming. We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries, the realists of a larger reality.

The airport bookstore did not sell books, only bestsellers, which Sita Dulip cannot read without risking a severe systemic reaction.

Absolute freedom is absolute responsibility.

Animals do neither good nor evil. They do as they must do.We may call what they do harmful or useful, but good and evil belong to us, who chose to choose what we do. [. . .] The animals need only be and do.We're yoked, and they're free. So to be with an animal is to know a little freedom.