We Are Not By Nature Cruel.

A Book Should Be An Axe To Chop Open The Frozen Sea Inside Us.

There Are Works Of Literature Whose Influence Is Strong But Indirect Because It Is Mediated Through The Whole Of The Culture Rather Than Immediately Through Imitation. Wordsworth Is The Case That Comes To Mind.

State Censorship Presents Itself As A Bulwark Between Society And Forces Of Subversion Or Moral Corruption. To Dismiss This Account Of Its Own Motives By The State As Insincere Would Be A Mistake: It Is A Feature Of The Paranoid Logic Of The Censoring Mentality That Virtue ... Must Be Innocent, And Therefore, Unless Protected, Vulnerable To The Wiles Of Vice.

If I, This Mortal Shell, Am Going To Die, Let Me At Least Live On Through My Creations.

For Himself, Then. For His Idea Of The World, A World In Which Men Do Not Use Shovels To Beat Corpses Into A More Convenient Shape For Processing.