Most of the things that are supposed to be so objectionable in books are things that every teenager, in the United States, not only knows, but has talked about at length in school, or on the way home from school.

There is a mass of people, we might as well admit, who if they weren't watching television, would be doing absolutely nothing else.

Fame - anyone who says he doesn't like it is crazy

I think it's become fashionable for the snobbish egghead today to make fun of television. I've heard many people, boast, "I would never have a television set in my house," well, these people are fools.

One of the greatest threats facing book publishing, and the entire country for that matter, is censorship.

Reading is a pleasure of the mind, which means that it is a little like a sport: your eagerness and knowledge and quickness count for something. The fun of reading is not that something is told to you, but that you stretch your mind. Your own imagination works along with the authors, or even goes beyond his, yields the same or different conclusions, and your ideas develop as you understand his.

Politicians are like ships: noisiest when lost in a fog.