"The artist is a man who has to fight with the world for the right to be himself."

"An unfree mind is a mind that has been taught to believe in what is untrue."

"I hate to be told by some guy in a suit that I shouldn't be writing about this or that because it's not 'marketable.'"

"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function."

"Freedom is a heavy load, a beautiful and terrible thing."