Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.

Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date.

In books I found explicitly, flamboyantly, everything censored in life.

So yes, I say things I regret constantly, and I just can't help it.

Without freedom of speech there is no modern world, just a barbaric one.

The censor's sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression.

The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen.

Yes, books are dangerous. They should be dangerous - they contain ideas.

I wrote a song about dental floss but did anyone's teeth get cleaner?

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

Any given censor is a fool. The very fact that he is a censor indicates that.

To reach the pinnacle of your writings potential; productivity becomes obsolete.

Calling a book "Young Adult" is just a fancy way of saying the book is censored.

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

If you believe that I'm a cop killer, you believe David Bowie is an astronaut.