Argument does not teach children or the immature. Only time and experience does that.

Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse.

If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.

Bad luck for both of us, we are both boulder-pushers.

What society doesn't realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don't now, or not very much. That whole respect for serious literature and learning has disappeared.

For she was of that generation who, having found nothing in religion, had formed themselves through literature.

I am sure everyone has had the experience of reading a book and finding it vibrating with aliveness, with colour and immediacy. And then, perhaps some weeks later, reading it again and finding it flat and empty. Well, the book hasn't changed: you have.