Primary-school education is a crock, basically. It's oppressive to anyone with physical energy, especially guys.

In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.

Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that is the best door to the future.

I love the Web, but the basis of my work is going through the physical books. When you go to the library, you see other books around on the shelves that you never knew existed. You can flip through a book and see the whole outline of it.

I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.

Back in the 1960s, I got a superb education for very little money. The bill for my first year at Harpur College in New York was a few hundred dollars.