Great portrait photographers are great mythologists.

Rarely do outside of school remedies work their way into the fabric of the schools or into the teachers lives, and more rarely into the classrooms. Therefore they only offer a modest hope of influencing the basic culture of the school

Literature is the question minus the answer.

Someone tells me: this kind of love is not viable. But how can you evaluate viability? Why is the viable a Good Thing? Why is it better to last than to burn?

Thus every writer's motto reads: mad I cannot be, sane I do not deign to be, neurotic I am.

Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula.

The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture.