• If it is permissible to write plays that are not intended to be seen, I should like to see who can prevent me from writing a book no one can read.

    Georg C. Lichtenberg: If it is permissible to write plays that are not intended to be seen, I should like to see who can prevent me from writing a book no one can read.
    "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook F 1, 1799.