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

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

The fundamental difference between the mystery story and the ghost story is the fact that a mystery demands a solution for its effectiveness; a ghost story is necessarily unsolvable; the reader must be willing to accept the fact that nothing is proved.

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

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.

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

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