[A]ny species that exempts itself from the rules of competition ends up destroying the community in order to support its own expansion.

There is a difference between the inmates of your criminal prisons and the inmates of your cultural prison: The former understand that the distribution of wealth and power inside the prison had nothing to do with justice.

Children don't need learning. They need access to what they want to learn outside the home.

Wow, just imagine missing school on the day when they were learning blue. You'd spend the rest of your life wondering what color the sky is.

When you send off a short story, it sits on the editor's desk in the same pile with stories by the most famous and honored names in present-day writing-and it's not going to be accepted unless it's as good as theirs. (And it'll probably have to be better.)

But why? Why do you need prophets to tell you how you ought to live? Why do you need anyone to tell you how you ought to live

We're straying from the path of salvation because we remember that we once belonged to the world and were content in that belonging.