“Teachers, let me tell you, are born deceivers of the lowest sort, since what they want from life is impossible — time-freed, existential youth forever. It commits them to terrible deceptions and departures from the truth. And literature, being lasting, is their ticket.”

“Men impose deception on women and punish them for being deceived, force them down to the lowest level and punish them for falling so low, bind them in marriage and then chastise them with menial service for life, or insults, or blows.”

“Though being freed from sin, most remain slaves, blinded and gagged by their own deception.”

“Maturity is the ability to sort the portions of truth from the accepted lies and self-deceptions that you have grown up with.”

“Please believe me when I tell you that I picked up each soul that day as if it were newly born. I even kissed a few weary, poisoned cheeks. I listened to their last, gasping cries. Their vanishing words. I watched their love visions and freed them from their fear.”

“This child, with his naive outlook on life was the compass which showed them the degree of their departure from what they knew but did not want to know.”