“[H]umans hate to admit error even as they stand there, black and smoldering, with the stub of a cigarette in one hand, in the middle of a wide crater containing them and the remains of a sign that once read 'DANGER: VOLATILE EXPLOSIVES”

“To avoid this error, the error of assuming that that to be widely read and to be well read are the same thing, we must consider a certain distinction in types of learning. … In the history of education, men have often distinguished between learning by instruction and learning by discovery. … Discovery stands to instruction as learning without a teacher stands to learning through the help of one. In both cases the activity of learning goes on in the one who learns. It would be a mistake to suppose that discovery is active learning, and instruction passive. There is no inactive learning, just as there is no inactive reading. This is so true, in fact, that a better way to make the distinction clear is to call instruction “aided discovery.””

“Once she read a book but found it distasteful because it contained adjectives.”

“I once admitted—to my shame—
That football was a brutal game.
Because She hates it.”

“Wrapped in a police blanket, I watched the rain and smoked one black cigarette after another…”

“the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners”

“I feel something for you, some dangerous thing, some volatile thing.”

“This is why dreams can be such dangerous things: they smolder on like a fire does, and sometimes they consume us completely.”

“Jack: I believe in being honest with myself. If there's one thing I hate it's when a comedian is great and won't admit it. I've never met one like that, but if I did, I'd hate them.”

“Even a queen stubs her toe, but a wise woman watches the path.”