...people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.

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.

A hedge knight must hold tight to his pride. Without it, he was no more than a sellsword

Lucy had no complaints about her dinner. Anything was fine with her as long as she didn’t have to cook it.

All that mattered was him looking at me

Iran has to live up to its international obligations. . . . The president has said that our patience is not unlimited.

I was four years old then, and I think it must have been the next summer that I first heard the voices.

Sophomore year, I got hit in the stomach playing football, and I was out of school for four months. I was in the hospital for two and then out of school for two.

So let us love, dear Love, like as we ought; Love is the lesson which the Lord us taught.

The relationship with yourself is the most important relationship you’ll ever have.

To be choiceless is to be in meditation. To be choiceless is to enter the eternal.

My brushwork is quite unsystematic. I slam the paint on in all sorts of ways and leave each result to take care of itself.