And theories are no more than fictions which help us to make sense of experience and which are subject to disconfirmation when their explanations are no longer adequate.

Storytellers are a threat. They threaten all champions of control, they frighten usurpers of the right-to-freedom of the human spirit -- in state, in church or mosque, in party congress, in the university or wherever.

When Rimbaud became a slave trader, he stopped writing poetry.

A goat does not eat into a hen's stomach no matter how friendly the two may be.

When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands. In one of my essays, I remember the kind of things that fascinated me. Weird things, even, about a wizard who lived in Africa and went to China to find a lamp... Fascinating to me because they were about things remote, and almost ethereal.

When brothers fight to death a stranger inherit their father’s estate

Become familiar with your home, but know also about your neighbors. The young man who never went anywhere thinks his mother is the greatest cook.