One of the chief values reading history, this is the author, is its capacity to "provoke renegade thoughts".
Reading has not gone out of fashion in the last number of years, nor in the ones while you slept in the asteroid belt. Your relatives do not wish to expose themselves to deep thought, lest they be aff...
Teach the child how to think and not what to think by equipping him with the armor of Discernment and the sword of Knowledge.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him will believeth in anything. - Hitchens 3:16
Think More Not Less.
No feeling is wrong. You have the right to your feelings. However, you do not need to wallow in them, and you do not have the right to act them out. The world hasn't suddenly become your punching bag...
Think independently and critically, but never forget to think with understanding and love.
Good art is always dangerous, always open-ended. Once you put it out in the world you lose control of it; people will fit it into their minds in all sorts of different ways.
When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you’re done, you have to step back and look at the forest.
One of the major differences I see in the political climate today is that there is less collective support for coming to critical consciousness – in communities, in institutions, among friends.
If you don't understand how the world works, then everything is a mystery to you. If everything is magical and mysterious, then you really don't work on logic anymore. Then, everything is all about be...
A book can tell me anything it wants to, but I sure as shit don't have to believe it.