“Knowledge isn’t restrained by the limits of Malthus. Information doesn’t need topsoil to grow in, only freedom. Given eager minds and experimentation, it feeds itself like a chain reaction.”

Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939), The Art of Thinking

Consolation Prize http://aliciawittmusic.com/lyrics/consolation-prize/ · performance on The Queen Latifah Show (2015) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNiHKcWG_XM <br class="br">Lyrics, Revisionary History (2015)

“The Finder” (p. 80)
Earthsea Books, Tales from Earthsea (2001)

Source: Ink and Bone

“The Environment and Disease: Association or Causation?,” Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine, 58 (1965), 295-300

Man and Socialism in Cuba (1965)
Context: A school of artistic experimentation is invented, which is said to be the definition of freedom; but this “experimentation” has its limits, imperceptible until there is a clash, that is, until the real problems of individual alienation arise. Meaningless anguish or vulgar amusement thus become convenient safety valves for human anxiety. The idea of using art as a weapon of protest is combated. Those who play by the rules of the game are showered with honors — such honors as a monkey might get for performing pirouettes. The condition is that one does not try to escape from the invisible cage.

Source: The Stand

As quoted in Letters of H. L. Mencken (1961) edited by Guy J. Forgue, p. xiii
1940s–present