"The most important thing a child can learn from a book is that they matter."

The philosopher in the bedroom is as ludicrous a figure as the philosopher in the nightclub.

The very shaping of history now outpaces the ability of men to orient themselves in accordance with cherished values. And which values? Even when they do not panic, men often sense that older ways of feeling and thinking have collapsed and that newer beginnings are ambiguous to the point of moral stasis.