Each living art object, taken out of its native habitat so we can conveniently gaze at it, is like an animal in a zoo. Something about it has died in the removal.

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

The hero was distinguished by his achievement; the celebrity by his image or trademark. The hero created himself; the celebrity is created by the media. The hero was a big man; the celebrity is a big name.

Nothing is really real unless it happens on television.

I write to discover what I think.

More appealing than knowledge itself is the feeling of knowledge.

The mind is a vagrant thing.... Thinking is not analogous to a person working in a laboratory who invents something on company time.