Nothing is really real unless it happens on television.

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

Where ruts have not yet been worn, it requires less effort to stay out of them.

The improved American highway system isolated the American-in-transit. On his speedway he had no contact with the towns which he by-passed. If he stopped for food or gas, he was served no local fare or local fuel, but had one of Howard Johnson's nationally branded ice cream flavors, and so many gallons of Exxon. This vast ocean of superhighways was nearly as free of culture as the sea traversed by the Mayflower Pilgrims.

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.

The hero created himself; the celebrity is created by the media.

Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.