Wounds make better lessons than lectures.

Opportunities are a tricky crop, with tiny flowers that are difficult to see and even more difficult to harvest.

Any school for free citizens must begin by teaching distrust, not trust. It must teach questioning, not acceptance of stock answers.

It's so much more interesting to study a ... damaged world. I find it difficult to learn anything in a place that's too civilized.

The more tightly packed the group, the greater the need for strict social ranks and orders.

There is no man so blind as one who has made up his mind.

Humans are different in private than in the presence of others. While the private persona merges into the social persona in varying degrees, the union is never complete. Something is always held back.