Billy Waldie

“If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.”
― Noam Chomsky

“We improve ourselves by victory over our self. There must be contests, and you must win.”
― Edward Gibbon

“As for literary criticism in general: I have long felt that any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel or a play or a poem is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae or a banana split.”
― kurt Vonnegut, Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage

“The number of people killed by the sanctions in Iraq is greater than the total number of people killed by all weapons of mass destruction in all of history.”
― Noam Chomsky