[Some people think] that storytelling is telling jokes. So they have to be discouraged! Then others think that storytelling-is like an encounter group . . .

Little Tamar, forget the long ago. We are here and we are now, and that is all. We are making a new start.

The first casualty in any war is the truth. In World War II, I was part of a group of people who used to meet once a week with the sole purpose of analyzing the news and trying to work out what we weren't being told. We thought that we were clever, but we had absolutely no idea what was really going on. It was only years later that we learned the true story.

we have not yet developed a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination.

Don't read a book out of its right time for you.

Parents should leave books lying around marked "forbidden" if they want their children to read.

I never stopped reading.