We all want to be guilty, because guilt is power.

Fashion is free speech, and one of the privileges, if not always one of the pleasures, of a free world

Grosvenor and Burke suggest that continually, though silently, a school building tells students who they are and how they should think about the world. It can help to manufacture rote obedience or independent activity; it can create high self-confidence or low self-esteem.

in a sense much great literature is subversive, since its very existence implies that what matters is art, imagination, and truth. In what we call the real world, on the other hand, what usually counts is money, power, and public success.

Nature can seem cruel, but she balances her books.

As one went to Europe to see the living past, so one must visit Southern California to observe the future.

There is a peculiar burning odor in the room, like explosives. the kitchen fills with smoke and the hot, sweet, ashy smell of scorched cookies. The war has begun.