Quotes About Expression

people burn books, and that they ban books is, in a way, a good sign. It's a good sign because it means books have power. When people burn books, it's because they're afraid of what's inside them...

Almost everyone has an inborn need to create; in most people this is thwarted and forgotten, and the drive is pushed into other activities that are less threatening, less difficult, and less rewarding. In some people, that need to create is transmuted into the need to destroy.

What you are saying and the way you are saying it are very closely linked. I discovered that I always had to let the book I was writing find its own style. Only in that way can you be sure that you are doing the right thing by your subject matter. It's a strange feeling -- as if the book has a life of its own.

They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper.

The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.

The aim of forensic oratory is to teach, to delight, to move.

Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.

Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.

If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter.

The Eskimo has fifty-two names for snow because it is important to them; there ought to be as many for love.

Tell, rather than write, because I have nothing to write with and writing is in any case forbidden. But if it's a story, even in my head, I must be telling it to someone. You don't tell a story only to yourself. There's always someone else. Even when there is no one.

Popular art is the dream of society it does not examine itself.

The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.

A word after a word after a word is power.

Perhaps I write for no one. Perhaps for the same person children are writing for when they scrawl their names in the snow.

Like water leaking slowly through a dike to become a steady trickle or a flood, words and ideas inexorably elude the censor's grasp. (Banned Books: Censorship Histories of World Literature)

Women's Tongues are as sharp as two-edged Swords, and wound as much, when they are anger'd.

Well, love don't count one rass unless it's a verb.

Many people hear voices when no one is there. Some of them are called mad and are shut up in rooms where they stare at the walls all day. Others are called writers and they do pretty much the same thing.

Thankfully, beauty is easier to remove than apply, and a swipe of demaquillage in the right direction and you are you once again.

I was like, Am I gay? Am I straight? And I realized...I'm just slutty. Where's my parade?

I'm taking a lot of my favorite artists, different people, my favorite music and marrying that with what I do as a comic. It's very collaborative, arty, fun and cool.

I was like, Am I gay? Am I straight? And I realized...I'm just slutty. Where's my parade?