“Nobody can stop you but you.”

“If you really want to be a writer, nobody can stop you -- and if you don't, nobody can help you.”

“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.”

“Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.”

“All that destiny garbage. Nobody can decide what happens to you. Nobody but you.”

“Nobody can stop natural disaster, we are the cause and we are the remedy.”