When the sciences are supreme, average people lose their feeling of causality. - Paul Goodman

This I did with all my will and apparently indefatigably (but I will one day drop with weariness)—I invented a different practical world that made no sense and took the heart out of me. Instead of resigning, I reacted, in moments of despair, by thinking up something else, and behaving as if this more pleasing landscape might indeed come to be the case.

It is desperately hard these days for an average child to grow up to be a man, for our present organized system does not want men. They are not safe.

It is hard to grow up in a society in which one’s important problems are treated as nonexistent. It is impossible to belong to it, it is hard to fight to change it.