A sober looks shows that just have the world gotten to be a better place after all; it is also grown a bit worse at the exact same rate.; a one step up, a one step back sort of cosmic balance between forward progress, and cultural retreat, that puts man kind on a bell curve of existence.
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
The fact is that every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.
"The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics."
