If someone asked you, why not help him out?

But there are still people whose moral superiority defeats your own.

Only those who decline to scramble up the career ladder are interesting as human beings. Nothing is more boring than a man with a career.

Shall I describe the happiness it gave me to go into the classroom and pick up the chalk? ... It seemed to me the supreme, heartbreaking happiness to enter a classroom carrying a register as that bell rang, and start a lesson with the mysterious air of one about to unfold wonders.

It is within the power of writers and artists to do much more: to defeat the lie!

You're sincere, but in order not to upset your views you avoid talking with people who think differently. You pick your thoughts from conversations with people like yourself, from books written by people like yourself. In physics they call it resonance. You start out with modest opinions, but they match and build each other up to a scale.

You should rejoice that you're in prison. Here you have time to think about your soul.