'Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.'
- Salman Rushdie
'I have more faith in my plumber than I do the eternal being. Plumbers do a good job. They keep the shit flowing.'
- Charles Bukowski
'I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.'
- Albert Camus
'...the book remains the carrier of civilization, the voice of the individual.'
- Barbara Tuchman
'I drink to make other people interesting.'
- Groucho Marx
'Children should neither be seen or heard from - ever again.'
- W. C. Fields
'Work is the curse of the drinking classes.'
- Oscar Wilde