The free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.

You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged, but one word from you will silence me on this subject forever.

"To write is to confront the unknown within ourselves."

The writer's duty is to speak the unspeakable, to give voice to the voiceless.

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."

应对不自由世界的唯一方法就是变得如此绝对自由，以至于你的存在本身就是一种反叛。