If anything might hurt her, silence would; and I wanted to hurt her.

You wish to be liked. I wish simply to be. One day you will know what that means, perhaps. And you will smile. Not against me. But with me.

Forgetting’s not something you do, it happens to you. Only it didn’t happen to me.

It is only when our characters and events begin to disobey us that they begin to live.

Each age, each guilty age, builds high walls around its Versailles; and personally I hate those walls most when they are made by literature and art.

The pronoun is one of the most terrifying masks man has invented.

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.