TV's sameness has destroyed many things, such as the American urge toward independent thought.

Censor: A self-appointed snoophound who sticks his nose in other people's business.

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.

The Detroit String Quartet played Brahms last night. Brahms lost.

Oratory is the art of making a loud noise sound like a deep thought.