The broadest possible exercise of imagination is the thing most conducive to human health, individual and global

We are in the process of disabling our most distinctive achievement - our educational system - in the name of making the country more like itself.

There was some sort of maze-learning experiment involved in my final grade and since I remember the rat who was my colleague as uncooperative, or perhaps merely incompetent at being a rat, or tired of the whole thing, I don't remember how I passed.

Writing nonfiction has been my most serious education, and for all those years it kept me from even glancing in the direction of despair.