You can only photograph a fragment of the here and now. The photograph presents the world as object; language, the world as idea.

Children enter school as question marks and leave as periods.

If parents wish to preserve childhood for their own children, they must conceive of parenting as an act of rebellion against culture

It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions.

If students get a sound education in the history, social effects and psychological biases of technology, they may grow to be adults who use technology rather than be used by it.

We are more naive than those of the Middle Ages, and more frightened, for we can be made to believe almost anything.

Everything we know has its origins in questions. Questions, we might say, are the principal intellectual instruments available to human beings.

At its best, schooling can be about how to make a life, which is quite different from how to make a living.

People in distress will sometimes prefer a problem that is familiar to a solution that is not.

Once you have learned to ask questions - relevant and appropriate and substantial questions - you have learned how to learn and no one can keep you from learning whatever you want or need to know.

I believe I am not mistaken in saying that Christianity is a demanding and serious religion. When it is delivered as easy and amusing, it is another kind of religion altogether.

Against the ruin of the world, there is only one defense: The creative act.

Everything you do with a horse is a dance.

Commercial rap get the gun clap, day after day.

What you resist persist.

I'd be lying if I said I had confidence in every choice I've made, that I have faith in every film I do on every shot.

Without design, there may be representation, but there can be no art.

Which is more remarkable fact about America: that millionaires are idealists or idealists become millionaires.

Three principles of prayer: 1. Keep it honest. 2. Keep it simple. 3. Keep it up.

Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the tongue and not the deed that wins the day.

There is nothing more atrociously cruel than an adored child.