Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.

Progress celebrates victories over nature. Progress makes purses out of human skin. When people were traveling in mail coaches, the world got ahead better than it does now that salesmen fly through the air. What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way? How will the heirs of this age be taught the most basic motions that are necessary to activate the most complicated machines? Nature can rely on progress; it will avenge it for the outrage it has perpetrated on it.

The agitator seizes the word. The artist is seized by it.

One's need for loneliness is not satisfied if one sits at a table alone. There must be empty chairs as well.

News reports stand up as people, and people wither into editorials. Clichés walk around on two legs while men are having theirs shot off.

I knew a man who carried his education in his vest pocket because there was more room there than in his head.

I master only the language of others. Mine does with me what it wants.