This is what self-centered religion does to us: it allows us to use it to further our own ends.

We are formed by what we desire

If I had to be anything," he told her, "I'd probably be a socialist, but I don't want to be anything.

wherever the TV glows, there sits someone who isn't reading.

Nothing bears out in practice what it promises incipiently.

The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn't behave that way you would never do anything.

It seems to me that people who don’t learn as easily as others suffer from a kind of learning disability—there is something different about the way they comprehend unfamiliar material—but I fail to see how this disability is improved by psychiatric consultation. What seems to be lacking is a technical ability that those of us called ‘good students’ are born with. Someone should concretely study these skills and teach them. What does a shrink have to do with the process?