"Free speech is not something you can have 'too much of'."

"I am a writer. I do not have to be polite. I do not have to be nice. I do not have to be politically correct. I have to be true to my imagination."

"The greatest danger to freedom is the abandonment of reason."

"To be a writer is to be an outsider. It is to be someone who stands on the edges of society, looking in, and then reporting what he sees."

"A writer’s life is a highly vulnerable, almost naked activity. We don’t have to weep about that. The writer makes his choice and is stuck with it."