Religious concepts and vocabulary are certainly censored in these textbooks.
We do not wish to be better than we are, but more fully what we are.
Life — how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.
Criticism changes with the fashion of the time. A story is always a story.
It is exciting and emancipating to believe we are one of nature's latest experiments, but what if the experiment is unsuccessful?
The makers of the short story have rarely been good novelists.
It is the role of the poet to look at what is happening in the world and to know that quite other things are happening.
It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own. All the power it has is what society gives it, plus what it confiscates from time to time on one pretext or another, there is no other source from which State power can be drawn. Therefore every assumption of State power, whether by gift or seizure leaves society with so much less power; there is never, nor can be, any strengthening of State power without a corresponding and roughly equivalent depletion of social power.
To live in the past is to miss today's opportunities and tomorrow's blessings.
Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.
A plastic man really, actually no man at all.