“The schoolmaster is termed, classically, Ludi Magister, because he deprives boys of their play.”
“How is the schoolmaster, the nation, to know which boy needs the whipping?”
“Poets write magistic and compelling words on paper. But authors, they write magistic and compelling words on souls.”
“I continued toward Atlanta with a Merle Haggard C.D. playing on the stereo. They weren't great hosts, but those guys in The Ted Kaczynski Fan Club had great taste in music. It was all classic country music- none of that sissy, boy-band country that they played on the radio all the time. I drove down the road while Merle preferred to just stay where he was and drink.”
“Plato's dialogues bear at least some similarities to the classical plays.”
“Because,' Quince says, leaning forward until I step back, 'he's a little boy who doesn't like other people playing with his toys.”