The burning of an author's books, imprisonment for opinion's sake, has always been the tribute that an ignorant age pays to the genius of its time.

Once you've put one of his [Henry James] books down, you simply can't pick it up again.

The worst of it is that I am perpetually being punished for nothing; this governor loves to punish, and he punishes by taking my books away from me. It's perfectly awful to let the mind grind itself away between the upper and nether millstones of regret and remorse without respite; with books my life would be livable -- any life.

Hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue.

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

I think it's a very good tribute. We are honored to have them come and participate.