A child who is protected from all controversial ideas is as vulnerable as a child who is protected from every germ. The infection, when it comes- and it will come- may overwhelm the system, be it the immune system or the belief system.

Progressivism is usually seen as a stepping back from individualism into a progressive community...

The one thing ... maybe no family could tolerate was things coming out into the open.

I discovered that the horse is life itself, a metaphor but also an example of life's mystery and unpredictability, of life's generosity and beauty, a worthy object of repeated and ever changing contemplation.

There is something I have noticed about desire, that it opens the eyes and strikes them blind at the same time.

Art doesn't exist if you just do what you're told. It only exists as an exercise of individual taste and freedom.

Is human nature basically good or evil? No economist can embark upon his profession without considering this question, and yet they all seem to. And they all seem to think human nature is basically good, or they wouldn't be surprised by the effects of deregulation.