Art is not entertainment. At its very best, it’s a revolution.
At its most effective, the censor’s lie actually succeeds in replacing the artist’s truth. That which is censored is thought to have deserved censorship.
Children are the vessels into which adults pour their poison.
Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
I do not envy people who think they have a complete explanation of the world, for the simple reason that they are obviously wrong.
If the creative artist worries if he will still be free tomorrow, then he will not be free today.
If we are not confident of our freedom, then we are not free.
It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish…to do otherwise is to legitimize it.
Original art is never created in the safe middle ground, but always at the edge.
Originality is dangerous. It challenges, questions, overturns assumptions, unsettles moral codes, disrespects sacred cows or other such entities.
The only people who see the whole picture are the ones who step outside the frame.
This is the final victory of the censor: When people, even people who know they are routinely lied to, cease to be able to imagine what is really the case.
Two things form the bedrock of any open society—freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don't have those things, you don't have a free country.
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.