Theo Van Gogh

I want to warn against the Fifth Column which is trying to hinder our free way of life in Holland.

As soon as you sit down to write about something you are pressing your nose deeper into the sewer of facts.

I would not be able to pen an academic and dry diatribe. I have too much talent for that.

I am dismayed to realize that much of the advice I used to parcel out to aspiring writers has passed its sell-by date.

All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.

Just as young people absorb all kinds of messages from the media, young girls learn what it means to be a woman by watching the older women in their lives.