Darkness Promotes Speech.

Darkness Promotes Speech.

As Centuries Of Dictators Have Known, An Illiterate Crowd Is The Easiest To Rule; Since The Craft Of Reading Cannot Be Untaught Once It Has Been Acquired, The Second-best Recourse Is To Limit Its Scope.

One Book Calls To Another Unexpectedly, Creating Alliances Across Different Cultures And Centuries.

In No Way Am I Demeaning Writing Or Any Other Form Of Art Because It's Popular. What I'm Saying Is That Anything Fed Into The Industrial Machinery To Comply With Rules Of Size And Length And Shelf-life Has A Hard Time Surviving As Art.

Each Book Was A World Unto Itself, And In It I Took Refuge.