The light is the left hand of darkness.

Every book purchase made from Amazon is a vote for a culture without content and without contentment.

I have never heard a dancer asking for advice about how to stay focused on her footwork, or a painter complaining about the dull day-to-day task of painting. What task worth doing isn't worth daily effort? Do you think Michelangelo was having fun the whole time he was on his back painting the Sistine Chapel's ceiling?

There are two kinds of knowledge, local and universal.

A dangerous book will always be in danger from those it threatens with the demand that they question their assumptions. They'd rather hang on to the assumptions and ban the book.

Her work, I really think her work is finding what her real work is and doing it, her work, her own work, her being human, her being in the world.

The machine conceals the machinations.