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.

There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist.

You must make, always. You must act, if you believe something. Talking about acting is like boasting about pictures you're going to paint. The most terrible bad form.

Ask me to marry you." "Will you marry me?" "No.

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

To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape.

They're beautiful. But sad.' Everything's sad if you make it so, I said.