Our present educational systems are all paramilitary. Their aim is to produce servants or soldiers who obey without question and who accepts their training as the best possible training. Those who are most successful in the state are those who have the most interest in prolonging the state as it is; they are also those who have the most say in the educational system, and in particular by ensuring that the educational product they want is the most highly rewarded.

The great majority of modern third-person narration is "I" narration very thinly disguised.

No amount of reading and intelligent deduction could supplant the direct experience.

He's not human; he's an empty space disguised as a human.

The absurdly neurotic role you and the rest of your kind have always attributed to me Erato, the Goddess Muse of Erotic Poetry bears no relation at all to reality. As a matter of fact, I was trained as a clinical psychologist. Who simply happens to have specialized in the mental illness that you, in your ignorance, call literature.

I knew words were like chains, they held me back . . . the act of description taints the description.

The privileges of knowledge have to be bought at the cost of the consolations of ignorance.