"I'm not interested in being popular. I'm interested in being free."

"A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it from going to sleep."

"The only way to resist tyranny is to tell stories."

"The biggest problem with censorship is that it creates a climate of fear, and that climate of fear is very bad for creativity."

"The job of the artist is to make trouble."