If something or someone is being banned, I want to be among the first to know about it.Howard Jacobson
People keep saying you can't satirize Trump because he's beyond satire, but it's not difficult to just let him out and let him walk upon the stage and say his own words.Howard Jacobson
Trump can be damned to all hell with his enclosed little world in which no thought is possible. But it's the encouraging of half the people of America and many more besides to hate words, hate what words can do, hate thought, hate the liberal, the sophisticated, the metropolitan. It's anger-making.Howard Jacobson
It isn't only in the name of free speech that the views of an itchy polemicist should be tolerated - and I say itchy polemicist promoting thought, not itchy ideologue promoting violence - but because provocation is indispensable to the workings of a sound, creative culture.Howard Jacobson
The terrorist isn't a problem because he doesn't conform; he's a problem because he does. It's what he conforms to that makes him dangerous.Howard Jacobson
You can have your country and be pleased to welcome others to it. You can have your country and still enjoy living elsewhere.Howard Jacobson
Do you want to be strangely various, or do you want to be purely yourself? Either way, revere no one.Howard Jacobson
Everybody past a certain age, regardless of how they look on the outside, pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives.Douglas Coupland
