"And on the subject of burning books: I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength or their powerful political connections or their great wealth, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their shelves, and have refused to reveal to thought police the names of persons who have checked out those titles.

So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries."
— Kurt Vonnegut (A Man Without a Country)

"If we eliminate the pressure to pass, what delicious and devastating opportunities for transformation might we create?"
— Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore (Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity)

"I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear."
— Joan Didion

"And it struck me then, that I liked Sean because he looked, well, slutty. A boy who had been around. A boy who couldn't remember if he was Catholic or not."
— Bret Easton Ellis (The Rules of Attraction)

"I only had sex with her because I'm in love with you. "
— Bret Easton Ellis (The Rules of Attraction)

"Innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself."
— Joan Didion (On Self-Respect)

"Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having,has a price."
— Joan Didion