All people have religions. It's like we have religion receptors built into our brain cells, or something, and we'll latch onto anything that'll fill that niche for us.

I think visual literacy and media literacy is not without value, but I think plain old-fashioned text literacy and mathematical literacy are much more powerful and flexible ways to organize your mind.

Talent was not rare; the ability to survive having it was.

If the item of stolen property had been anything other than a book, it would have been confiscated. But a book is different - it is not just a material possession but the pathway to an enlightened mind, and thence to a well-ordered society.

How could your cover be blown in Canada? Why even bother going dark there? How could you tell?

If you sincerely believed in God, how could you form one thought, speak one sentence, without mentioning Him?

If the Coastal Republic had believed in the existence of virtue, it could at least have aspired to hypocrisy.