Language is the main instrument of man's refusal to accept the world as it is.

The letter kills the spirit. The written text is mute in the face of responding challenge. It does not admit of inward growth and correction. Text subverts the absolutely vital role of memory.

the calling of the teacher. There is no craft more privileged. To awaken in another human being powers, dreams beyond one’s own; to induce in others a love for that which one loves; to make of one’s inward present their future; that is a threefold adventure like no other.

To ask larger questions is to risk getting things wrong. Not to ask them at all is to constrain the life of understanding

To understand is to decipher. To hear significance is to translate.

The very opposite of freedom is cliche, and nothing is less free, more inert with convention and hollow brutality, than a row of four-letter words.

There is something terribly wrong with a culture inebriated by noise and gregariousness.