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

They tell about a fifteen-year-old boy in an orphans' home who had an incurable stutter. One Sunday the minister was detained and the boy volunteered to say the prayer in his stead. He did it perfectly, too, without a single stutter. Later he explained, "I don't stutter when I talk to God. He loves me."

Television, I love it, everything that happened before television lumped together, never caused folks to turn on a street to stare at me, or waitresses to ask for autographs.

I think the right to read, is one of our inherent rights, and I think that people in America today are intelligent enough to decide for themselves what they want to read. Without being told, by self-appointed people, you must not read this, or you cannot read this.

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

The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed.

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