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.

Wealth is a monster. It takes a month to learn to control it financially. And many years to learn to control it psychologically.

He is solid; immovable, iron-willed. He showed me one day his killing bottle. I'm imprisoned in it. Fluttering against the glass. Because I can see through it I still think I can escape. I have hope. But it's all an illusion. A thick round wall of glass.

He was one of the most supremely stupid men I have ever met. He taught me a great deal.

She's always looking for poetry and passion and sensitivity, the whole Romantic kitchen. I live on a rather simpler diet.' 'Prose and pudding?''I don't expect attractive men necessarily to have attractive souls.

Wolves don't hunt singly, but always in pairs. The lone wolf was a myth.

Because a star explodes and a thousand worlds like ours die, we know this world is. That is the smile: that what might not be, is.