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

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.

In fact, of course, there is no secret knowledge; no one knows anything that can't be found on a shelf in the public library.

Once you learn to discern the voice of Mother Culture humming in the background, telling her story over and over again to the people of your culture, you’ll never stop being conscious of it. Wherever you go for the rest of your life, you’ll be tempted to say to the people around you, “how can you listen to this stuff and not recognize it for what it is?

If the world is saved, it will not be saved by old minds with new programs but by new minds with no programs at all.

TEACHER seeks pupil. Must have an earnest desire to save the world. Apply in person.

We've poured our poisons into the world as though it were a bottomless pit.. and we go on gobbling them up. It's hard to imagine how the world could survive another century of this abuse, but nobody's really doing anything about it. It's a problem our children will have to solve, or their children.