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.

For me, a hearty "belly laugh" is one of the beautiful sounds in the world.

The Atomic Age is here to stay - but are we?

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 once was a student named Bessor Whose knowledge grew lessor and lessor. It at last grew so small He knew nothing at all, And today he's a college professor!

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

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