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.

To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.

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.

To shoot a man because one disagrees with his interpretation of Darwin or Hegel is a sinister tribute to the supremacy of ideas in human affairs -- but a tribute nevertheless.

The intellectual is, quite simply, a human being who has a pencil in his or her hand when reading a book.

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

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