"Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil..." - Quote by Leonardo Da Vinci

“I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand.”

“There is nothing which deceives us as much as our own judgement.”

“Savage is he who saves himself.”

“I came on the old and best ways of writing through ignorance and experiment and was startled when truths leaped out of brushes like quail before gunshot.”

“My own education has been entirely controversial: that is why I know what I am writing about; and appear eccentric to dogmatically educated Old School Ties whose heads are stuffed with obsolete shibboleths.”

“I got very interested in people who had discovered something more significant than ... intellectual, abstract understanding.”

“Remember that the progress of the world depends on your knowing better than your elders.”

“Much did I rage when young, Being by the world oppressed, But now with flattering tongue It speeds the parting guest.”

“When I did A Soldier's Story, I was very young and green and thought I knew everything-now I know I know everything!”