“I find it a challenge to cooperate in a society where it's considered moral to critique a résumé yet immoral to critique morality.”

“The novel as a form is usually seen to be moral if its readers consider freedom, individuality, democracy, privacy, social connection, tolerance and hope to be morally good, but it is not considered moral if the highest values of a society are adherence to rules and traditional mores, the maintenance of hierarchical relationships, and absolute ideas of right and wrong. Any society based on the latter will find novels inherently immoral and subversive.”

“But the bigots always see those whom they hate as morally corrupt, as if they confuse their own aesthetics of disgust and fear with actual ethical critique, rationalizing their emotional response, and enforcing their moral certainties with passion, establishing them-selves, subtly or brutally, as arbiters of reason.”

“Moralism doesn't produce morality; it produces immorality.”

“Fashion is neither moral or immoral, but it is for rebuilding the morale.”

“A society whose moral ideas inhibit their own defense will always suffer defeat by the very predators they deem immoral.”