“Do Italians tell you everything they feel without censor?”

“Maybe he does have a choice to make, but everything I feel, everything I know says absoloutely that choice will be you""She speaks French and Italian.""That bitch.”

“The worst thing you can do is censor yourself as the pencil hits the paper. You must not edit until you get it all on paper. If you can put everything down, stream-of-consciousness, you'll do yourself a service.”

“In books I found explicitly, flamboyantly, everything censored in life.”

“No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.”

“To be free of all authority, of your own and that of another, is to die to everything of yesterday, so that your mind is always fresh, always young, innocent, full of vigour and passion. It is only in that state that one learns and observes. And for this, a great deal of awareness is required, actual awareness of what is going on inside yourself, without correcting it or telling it what it should or should not be, because the moment you correct it you have established another authority, a censor.”