To her audience Janis Joplin has remained a symbol artifact and reminder of late Sixties youth culture. Her popularity never derived from her musical ability but from her capacity to link her fantasies of freedom and immortality with ours.

With paper printed books you have certain freedoms. You can acquire the book anonymously by paying cash which is the way I always buy books. I never use a credit card. I don't identify to any database when I buy books. Amazon takes away that freedom.

I've never let producers tell me what to do. Even when I was making television I always did what I wanted to do and if I couldn't I didn't do it. It was a freedom that these days young directors starting out don't have.

I never abandoned either forms or freedom. I imagine that most of what could be called free verse is in my first book. I got through that fairly early.

The search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women.

I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.

Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.

The message of Passover remains as powerful as ever. Freedom is won not on the battlefield but in the classroom and the home. Teach your children the history of freedom if you want them never to lose it.

He who believes in freedom of the will has never loved and never hated.

I will never understand people who think that the way to show their righteous opposition to sexual freedom is to write letters full of filthy words.