The fatal pedagogical error is to throw answers like stones at the heads of those who have not yet asked the questions.
Who can take a single step with his head?
What can't be said can be written. Because writing is a silent act, a labor from the head to the hand.
Suffering doesn't improve human beings, does it?
Anything in literature, including memory, is second-hand.
To combat death you don't need much of a life, just one that isn't yet finished.
Language is so different from life. How am I supposed to fit the one into the other? How can I bring them together?
I think in the '50s, the percentage of Americans employed by the private sector who were in unions was above 30 percent. And now it's in the single digits, so it plummeted. And with the plummeting of unions came the weakening of an organized working-class voice in politics.
Nobody knows the trouble I've seen: even less, the trouble I've successfully avoided.
Parliamentary committees are becoming more independent, tactics are becoming more sophisticated, and industries that don't want to be bushwhacked by some damaging legislative amendment will have to spend more time and money watching the Hill.
Frogs eat Butterflies, Snakes eat Frogs, Hogs eat Snakes, Men eat Hogs.