It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read.

The traditional educational theory is to the effect that the way to bring up children is to keep them innocent (i.e., believing in biological, political, and socioeconomic fairy tales) as long as possible ... that students should be given the best possible maps of the territories of experience in order that they may be prepared for life, is not as popular as might be assumed.

You just don't know anything unless you can write it. Sure you can argue things out in your own head and bring them out at parties, but in order to argue anything thoroughly, you must be able to put it down on paper.

It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Advertising is a symbol-manipulating occupation

We live in a highly competitive society, each of us trying to outdo the other in wealth, in popularity or social prestige, in dress, in scholastic grades or golf scores. One is often tempted to say that conflict, rather than cooperation, is the great governing principle of human life.