"I never abandoned either forms or freedom. I imagine that most of what could be called free verse is in my first book. I got through that fairly early"

"There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action"

"Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride"

"A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it"

"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be"

"Freedom is not something that can be given, it is something that must be fought for"

"The 4th Amendment and the personal rights it secures have a long history. At the very core stands the right of a man to retreat into his own home and there be free from unreasonable governmental intrusion"

"Amongst Women concentrated on the family, and the new book concentrates on a small community. The dominant units in Irish society are the family and the locality. The idea was that the whole world would grow out from that small space"

"I think for anybody reading the book they're going to get an idea in their heads of all those characters, and I think that once that gets fixed, it's quite hard to shake"

"I still do some inking here and there and I've actually got a book that I'm going to ink entirely"