By annihilating native literature, by sweeping away from all sources of pride and pleasure in their own mental efforts, by rendering a whole people dependent upon a remote and unknown country for all their ideas and the words in which to clothe them, we should degrade their character, depress their energies and render them incapable of aspiring to any intellectual distinction.

He hated the Press as he hated advertising and television, he hated mass-media, the relentless persuasion of the twentieth century. Everything he admired or loved had been the product of intense individualism.

To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves: such a prohibition ought to fill them with disdain.

Publish and be damned

In writing, you must kill all your darlings.

Those who are opposed to armed uprising ... must be ruthlessly kicked out as enemies, traitors and cowards.

Those who write ill, and they who ne'er durst write,
Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.

We are complete press sluts.

The harshest censorship is self-censorship.

Publish and be damned.

Publish and be damned.

Every artist is a cannibal, every poet is a thief. All kill their inspiration and sing about their grief.

The newspapers! Sir, they are the most villainous — licentious — abominable — infernal — Not that I ever read them — no — I make it a rule never to look into a newspaper.

The newspapers! Sir, they are the most villainous—licentious—abominable—infernal—Not that I ever read them—No—I make it a rule never to look into a newspaper.