Education In The United States Is A

[t]hat Is The Triumph Of History - Truth Absolute Is Not At Hand; The Original With Which To Match The Copy Does Not Exist.

The Sole Justification Of Teaching, Of The School Itself, Is That The Student Comes Out Of It Able To Do Something He Could Not Do Before. I Say Do And Not Know, Because Knowledge That Doesn't Lead To Doing Something New Or Doing Something Better Is Not Knowledge At All.

I Have Always Been - I Think Any Student Of History Almost Inevitably Is - A Cheerful Pessimist.

It Is Always Some Illusion That Creates Disillusion, Especially In The Young, For Whom The Only Alternative To Perfection Is Cynicism.

The Danger That May Really Threaten (crime Fiction) Is That Soon There Will Be More Writers Than Readers