I write to discover what I think.

The hero was a big man; the celebrity is a big name.

There is no disinfectant like success.

What is more natural in a democratic age than that we should begin to measure the stature of a work of art-especially of a painting-by how widely and how well it is reproduced?

There was a time when the reader of an unexciting newspaper would remark, 'How dull is the world today!' Nowadays he says, 'What a dull newspaper!'

God is the celebrity author of the world's best seller. We have made god into the biggest celebrity of all, to contain our own emptiness.

More appealing than knowledge itself is the feeling of knowledge.