No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it.

The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same time, he needs no one at all.

I was guilty and irritated and full of love and pain. I wanted to kick him and I wanted to take him in my arms.

It happened, as many things do, imperceptibly, in many ways at once. I date it - the slow crumbling of my faith, the pulverization of my fortress - from the time, about a year after I had begun to preach, when I began to read again. I justified this desire by the fact that I was still in school, and I began, fatally, with Dostoyevsky.

There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves. People are not, for example, terribly anxious to be equal (equal, after all, to what and to whom?) but they love the idea of being superior.

It is astonishing that in a country so devoted to the individual, so many people should be afraid to speak.

The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.