"It is, after all, the right of the people to be absolutely idiotic if they wish."

"To be a writer is to be a criminal. To be a writer is to be a transgressor. It's to be someone who goes across the line."

"The future of freedom depends on the future of literature."

"I have always believed that stories are how we make sense of the world, and how we change the world."

"The only people who are truly free are those who can laugh at themselves."