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Every Decent Man Had To Be Against Fascism, Period.

Literature May Make The Reader Reexamine Some Of His Or Her Own Conventions, Look At Himself Or Herself In A Different Way, Look At Others In A Different Way. This Goes Way Beyond Just Making Statements Or Manifesting Principles.

If You Change Your Diet, Someone Will Call You A Traitor.

When I Was Little, My Ambition Was To Grow Up To Be A Book. Not A Writer. People Can Be Killed Like Ants. Writers Are Not Hard To Kill Either. But Not Books: However Systematically You Try To Destroy Them, There Is Always A Chance That A Copy Will Survive And Continue To Enjoy A Shelf-life In Some Corner On An Out-of-the-way Library Somehwere In Reykjavik, Valladolid Or Vancouver.

I Would Not Waste Five Years Of My Life In Order To Send To The Israeli Readers A Simple Message Such As, "let Us Change A Policy Or Stop The Settlements," Or, "let Us Strive For Peace." This Is Not What It Is About.