Everything gives way before the recurring torment and festivity of passion.

There's a great fear of the imagination. It's a dangerous thing. It's out of control, it's subversive.

To see a candle's light one must take it into a dark place.

Literacy is so you can read the operating instructions.

It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.

He knew now, and the knowledge was hard, that his task had never been to undo what he had done, but to finish what he had begun.

A child free from the guilt of ownership and the burden of economic competition will grow up with the will to do what needs doing and the capacity for joy in doing it. It is useless work that darkens the heart. The delight of the nursing mother, of the scholar, of the successful hunter, of the good cook, of the skilful maker, of anyone doing needed work and doing it well, - this durable joy is perhaps the deepest source of human affection and of sociality as a whole.