“To choose a good book, look in an inquisitor’s prohibited list.”
“Reason generates the list of possibilities. Emotion chooses from that list.”
“Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.”
“To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves: such a prohibition ought to fill them with disdain.”
“Choosing a new book was like looking for treasure.”