“Study is the child of silence and mystery.”
“The silence of earth seemed to melt into the silence of the heavens. The mystery of earth was one with the mystery of the stars ...”
“A schoolchild should be taught grammar--for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy. Having learned about the exciting mysteries of an English sentence, the child can then go forth and speak and write any damn way he pleases.”
“Every child's bedroom is as important as a telescope orbiting the planet earth or a philosopher's study.”
“Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.”
“...But the child's sob in silence curses deeper / Than the strong man in his wrath.”