"It's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. The books that will…"

"While people are always quick to take up the cudgels against censorship of the press, or radio, any crackpot can advo…"

"For several years now, various groups have urged the banning of crime pictures on the ground that they influence yout…"

"Censorship is the mother of metaphor."

"There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches. Every mino…"

"Only six weeks ago, I discovered that, over the years, some cubby-hole editors at Ballantine Books, fearful of contam…"

"Captain Beatty: Colored people don't like Little Black Sambo. Burn it. White people don't feel good about Uncle Tom's…"

"What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books."

"The vast number of titles which are published each year—all of them are to the good, even if some of them may annoy o…"

"Suppression is the instrument of a totalitarian dictatorship; we don’t talk of that sort of thing in a free country! …"