“There are no amateurs in the world of children.”
“If there is an amateur reader still left in the world—or anybody who just reads and runs—I ask him or her, with untellable affection and gratitude, to split the dedication of this book four ways with my wife and children.”
“Mass amateurization of publishing makes mass amateurization of filtering a forced move.”
“Solely in the world of languages is the amateur of value. Well-intentioned sentences full of mistakes can still build bridges between people.”
“Children deprived of words become school dropouts; dropouts deprived of hope behave delinquently. Amateur censors blame delinquency on reading immoral books and magazines, when in fact, the inability to read anything is the basic trouble.”
“Hiding is for amateurs.”