"Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint."

"The world is full of people who are very happy to tell you what you should write and how you should write it. And if you listen to them, you’ll never write anything."

"I think the job of a writer is to be a witness, to bear witness to the world."

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

"The only way to fight darkness is with light."