No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever.
Our discontent begins by finding false villains whom we can accuse of deceiving us. Next we find false heroes whom we expect to liberate us. The hardest, most discomfiting discovery is that each of us must emancipate himself.
Human models are more vivid and more persuasive than explicit moral commands.
Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
Planning for the future without a sense of history is like planting cut flowers.
But rather that we should lose our sense that neither can become the other, that the traditional novel form continues to enlarge our experience in those very areas where the wide-angle lense and the Cinerama screen tend to narrow it.