There's something beautifully soothing about a fact — even (or perhaps especially) if we're not sure what it means.

The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century.

We need not be theologians to see that we have shifted responsibility for making the world interesting from God to the newspaperman.

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?

Throught human history, illusions of knowledge, not ignorance, have proven to be the principal obstacles to discovery

Modern tourist guides have helped raised tourist expectations. And they have provided the natives- from Kaiser Wilhelm down to the villagers of Chichacestenango - with a detailed and itemized list of what is expected of them and when. These are the up-to-date scripts for actors on the tourists' stage.

An enamored amateur need not be a genius to stay out of the ruts he has never been trained in.