“You know, here, it's not forbidden to escape. It's forbidden to get caught. ”
“If it's not forbidden, then it's allowed”
“People who read D.H. Lawrence suspect that the forbidden is not necessarily without its virtue, and so are easily persuaded that the forbidden and the virtuous are one and the same.”
“There is a special grief felt by the children and grandchildren of those who were forbidden to read, forbidden to question or to know.”
“Each of us has to find out for himself what is permitted and what is forbidden.. forbidden for him. It's possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard. And vice versa.”
“For now, poetry has the capacity - in its own ways and by its own means - to remind us of something we are forbidden to see.”