“It is terribly bad form to admit to being terrified for one’s life, but nobody in their right mind would go to a Court banquet without making preparations. One must have the right costume, the right Faces, and at least eighty-two ways of avoiding assassination.”

“...one can't avoid the storms and calamities of life, but one can at least find the right partner to face them with.”

“All sentient beings should have at least one right—the right not to be treated as property”

“One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper pattern at the right moment.”

“One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper patten of the right moment.”

“It was a shocking thing to say and I knew it was a shocking thing to say. But no one has the right to live without being shocked. No one has the right to spend their life without being offended. Nobody has to read this book. Nobody has to pick it up. Nobody has to open it. And if you open it and read it, you don't have to like it. And if you read it and you dislike it, you don't have to remain silent about it. You can write to me, you can complain about it, you can write to the publisher, you can write to the papers, you can write your own book. You can do all those things, but there your rights stop. No one has the right to stop me writing this book. No one has the right to stop it being published, or sold, or bought, or read.”