Gross ignorance is 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance.

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

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.

One of the troubles of the day, observes Mr. C.N. Peac, is that once we came upon the little red schoolhouse, whereas now we come upon the little-read school boy.

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.

Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup.

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