“As the wicked flee when none pursueth, so does the middle-class wrestle when none contendeth. They cried out for freedom, it came down on them in a flood. Nothing remains but a few floating timbers...”

“Just because your soul is being torn to pieces doesn't mean that you stop analyzing the phenomena.”

“If you could arrange to avoid that routine job-world, you were an intellectual or an artist. Too restless, tremorous, agitated, too mad to sit at a desk eight hours a day, you needed an institution...”

“Maybe America didn't need art and inner miracles. It had so many outer ones. The USA was a big operation, very big. The more it, the less we.”

“Whatin other wordswould modern boredom be without terror? One of the most boring documents of all time is the thick volume of Hitlers Table Talk. He too had people watching movies, eating pastries,...”

“Socrates tried to soothe us, true enough. He said there were only two possibilities. Either the soul is immortal or, after death, things would be again as blank as they were before we were born. Th...”

“We tilt our heads back and open wide. The snow drifts into our zombie mouths crawling with grease and curses and tobacco flakes and cavities and boyfriend/girlfriend juice, the stain of lies. For o...”

“The teachers complain that the students today are all lazy, ignorant, and stupid. But the truth is that you're smarter than they are. You're not even old enough to drive and you already know that n...”

“I told her about school and how I sat on a wall there and felt stories and words move through me ...”

“Teachers are mind engineers! Teachers are life directors! Dont ever undermine a teacher!”

“Even we set aside the nearly 50 percent of all beginner teachers who choose to leave the profession within five yearsand ignore the evidence that those who leave are worse performers than those who...”

“One thing I more and this is all I have to say...High School is not a separate unit from you. We are apart of you. Every man, woman, and child in this community is a part...Your ways of life in you...”