"The institution of censorship puts power into the hands of persons with a judgmental, bureaucratic cast of mind that is bad for the cultural and even the spiritual life of the community. The contest with the censor is all too likely to assume an importance in the inner life of the artist that at the least diverts him from his proper occupation and at worst fascinates and even perverts the imagination."

-- John Maxwell Coetzee, Nobel Prize in Literature 2003