"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.'"

"I think hard times are coming when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now."

"The artist is a servant of the art, not a master of it."

"The only true voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes."

"Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it."