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If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.

Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don’t you let it out then?

You marvel at the economy and this choice of words. How many ways can you describe the sky and the moon? After Sylvia Plath, what can you say?

Everything I’ve ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it.

“No comment” is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.

They do not love that do not show their love.

I might talk about killing people, but that doesn’t mean I do it.

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

I’ve wanted somehow to convey to you the sensations – the atmospheric pressure, you might say – of what it is to be seriously a long-term prisoner in an American prison.

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings – words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.