The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration; but the honing is uniform.

If there is a chronic infirmity by which every teacher ought to be afflicted, it is, indeed, hope.

He who has read Kafka's Metamorphosis and can look into his mirror unflinching may technically be able to read print, but is illiterate in the only sense that matters.

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 whispers of shared ecstasy are choral.

It took 10 months for me to learn to tie a lace; I must have howled with rage and frustration. But one day I could tie my laces. That no one can take from you. I profoundly distrust the pedagogy of ease.

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