"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 idea that some thoughts are too dangerous to be thought is a dangerous idea for freedom."

"History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake."

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

"I don't have a crystal ball, but I can tell you that the future will be full of surprises."