"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States , and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."

- Isaac Asimov 

My blood is alive with many voices telling me I am made of longing.

—	Rainer Maria Rilke, The Book Of Hours