John Horne Burns, Lucifer with a Book

"She saw why teachers get very old and stay very young. For there is no closer probing of the mind--not even in psychoanalysis."

"He knew instinctively the cardinal function of a teacher – which is a stout lever to raw mass."

"Education, boy, is not something to prepare you for life. That is a vulgar American error.… It's something to take you out of life."