In the United States we have concentrated tremendous sums of money on the educational plant, seemingly with the idea that the right number of buildings will turn out the right number of graduates. Yet the teachers who actually instruct the future citizens of our country are more often than not miserably paid. If in the future we find ourselves with a lot of fourth-rate citizens, we have only ourselves to blame.

No memory is ever alone; it's at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own associations.

It is an old custom of these people to pick up a stone and toss it on the pile. Perhaps it is a symbolical lightening of the load they carry, perhaps a small offering to the gods of the trails.

Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen.

A writer's brain is like a magician's hat. If you're going to get anything out of it, you have to put something in it first.

What is education but a conditioning of the mind to a society and a way of life.

I am somebody. I am me. And I don't need anybody to make me somebody.