Because real thoughts come from outside and travel with us like the noodle soup we take to work; in other words, inquisitors burn books in vain. If a book has anything to say, it burns with a quiet laugh, because any book worth its salt points up and out of itself.

Too Loud a Solitude (ed. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1992) - ISBN: 9780547545882